De Chirico Cameo (Great Modern Masters)
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: September 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780810946866
Subjects: History of art & art styles; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Surrealism & Dada; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Criticism and interpretation; 20th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Bargain Books; Italy; De Chirico, Giorgio,; History - General; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; De Chirico, Giorgio; 1888-; 1888-1978; Catalogs
Description: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), the greatest Italian painter of our time, is also one of the most elusive figures of modern art. Recognized as a forerunner of several important twentieth-century movements - most notably Surrealism - he suddenly, not halfway through his long career, turned his back on his years of modernist experimentation and returned to classicism.

But in 1920, after years of experimentation, de Chirico abandoned his metaphysical work and returned to a conservative, academic style. This illustrated survey, with more than sixty full color reproductions of his most important paintings, re-examines the work of this visionary artist.