Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris

by Ara H. Merjian

Painted in Paris on the eve of World War One, the Metaphysical cityscapes of Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) redirected the course of modernist painting and the modern architectural imagination alike. Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City examines the two most salient dimensions of the artist's early imagery: its representations of architectural space and its sustained engagement with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Centering upon a single...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300176597
• ISBN13: 9780300176599
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.8"