Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico

No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, particularly during his metaphysical period, is vast. De Chirico relied on imagery from the unconscious to create art with mythological, philosophical, and historical overtones, so that his paintings have an appeal that is more that purely visual.


Author: Giorgio de Chirico
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1994
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.40w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780306805684

About the Author
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists.