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082 1 _aREF 709.2 DEC
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100 1 _aBaldacci, Paolo
240 1 0 _aToller Cranston Collection
245 1 0 _aDe Chirico :
_bthe metaphysical period, 1888-1919
_c/ Paolo Baldacci
260 _aBoston
_b: Little, Brown
_c, 1997
300 _a443 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 34 cm
520 _aDe Chirico: The Metaphysical Period is the most authoritative source on the formative years and period of greatest achievement in the career of Giorgio de Chirico, one of the masters of twentieth-century art. Beginning around 1909, Giorgio de Chirico projected in his paintings an irrational, dreamlike world of empty classical cityscapes populated by statues, shadows, and familiar objects isolated or mysteriously juxtaposed. This Metaphysical Painting, as he called it, was seized on by the Surrealists in the 1920s and has continued to haunt our imagination. Paolo Baldacci's monograph reveals the many biographical elements of de Chirico's mysterious work, devoting particular attention to his most critically acclaimed period,
546 _aTranslated from the Italian to English
600 1 4 _aDe Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978
650 4 _aCatalogues
650 4 _aCriticism and interpretation
942 _cMO
999 _c243264
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