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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780271023588
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Art of Enigma : the De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania STATE University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271023589
ISBN-13
9780271023588
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2854507
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Art of Enigma : the De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism
Subject
History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-010256
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
&"In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.&' The Art of Enigma, an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art.&" &-Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los Angeles, "In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma , an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art." --Karen Pinkus,University of California, Los Angeles, &"It must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting.&" &-Robert Radford, The Art Book, "By turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico's work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field." --Michael R. Taylor,The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "It must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting." -Robert Radford, The Art Book, "In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma , an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art." -Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los Angeles, "It must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting." --Robert Radford The Art Book, "By turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico's work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field." --Michael R. Taylor, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "What would it mean to look at de Chirico differently? . . . Keala Jewell's new book The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism provides the answer to this question by examining the work of the de Chirico brothers, Giorgio and Alberto (later know as Alberto Savinio) together. . . . What emerges is a new picture of the de Chiricos that refuses easy definitions and is salutary for its protean spirit of inclusiveness and heterogeneity." --Anthony White Papers of Surrealism, &"By turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico&'s work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field.&" &-Michael R. Taylor, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma , an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art." --Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los Angeles, &"What would it mean to look at de Chirico differently? . . . Keala Jewell&'s new book The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism provides the answer to this question by examining the work of the de Chirico brothers, Giorgio and Alberto (later know as Alberto Savinio) together. . . . What emerges is a new picture of the de Chiricos that refuses easy definitions and is salutary for its protean spirit of inclusiveness and heterogeneity.&" &-Anthony White, Papers of Surrealism, "In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma, an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art." --Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los Angeles, "By turning her focus away from the familiar Metaphysical canvases of de Chirico's work of the 1910s, Keala Jewell finds new and exciting relationships between the art and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. As such, this book makes a significant contribution to the field. The Art of Enigma has all the markings of a landmark study in the field." -Michael R. Taylor, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, "In this fine book, Keala Jewell studies the works of Giorgio de Chirico and his younger brother Alberto Savinio who together produced an oeuvre shrouded in 'the motif of secrecy.' The Art of Enigma, an authentically interdisciplinary book, is the first study that considers the brothers together and addresses the important task of defining and characterizing the Metaphysical art that the brothers developed, especially as it differs from Surrealism, and establishes itself as an Italian, rather than a French, art." -Karen Pinkus, University of California, Los Angeles, "What would it mean to look at de Chirico differently? . . . Keala Jewell's new book The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism provides the answer to this question by examining the work of the de Chirico brothers, Giorgio and Alberto (later know as Alberto Savinio) together. . . . What emerges is a new picture of the de Chiricos that refuses easy definitions and is salutary for its protean spirit of inclusiveness and heterogeneity." -Anthony White, Papers of Surrealism, "What would it mean to look at de Chirico differently? . . . Keala Jewell's new book The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism provides the answer to this question by examining the work of the de Chirico brothers, Giorgio and Alberto (later know as Alberto Savinio) together. . . . What emerges is a new picture of the de Chiricos that refuses easy definitions and is salutary for its protean spirit of inclusiveness and heterogeneity." --Anthony White, Papers of Surrealism, "It must be said that Jewell, a prominent scholar in the field of Italian literature, measures up unflinchingly and with penetrating subtlety, so that, although her attention concentrates on the literary output of the two brothers, this in no way diminishes the value of its contribution to a fuller understanding of their painting." --Robert Radford, The Art Book
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
700/.92/245
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. De Chirico's Cultural Topographies 2. The Cultural Shapes of Space 3. Heroic Cultural Intelligence 4. Inaction Heroes: De Chirico's Gladiators 5. Isadora Duncan as Metaphysical Heroine 6. Creatures of Difference: Savinio's Monsters 7. Savinio's Jewish Hermaphrodite Afterword: The Brothers Look Back Bibliography Notes Index
Synopsis
In this interdisciplinary book, Keala Jewell reunites Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with his brother, Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), a prolific writer and painter who has been kept at the margins of the discussion of Surrealism and, more generally, the culture politics of twentieth-century Italy. Yet as Jewell demonstrates, the brothers worked together during their formative years in Munich and Paris and always shared, on the one hand, a drive to salvage Mediterranean myth and history and, on the other, a deep involvement with art's power to shape cultural identity and authority. Rather than looking for a key to unlock the secrets of the brothers' recurrent use of dislocated spaces and bizarre hybrid figures, Jewell focuses on assessing the issues of identity and mastery put at stake in the haunting enigmas that characterize their paintings and writings. Deeply impressed by Nietzsche, she argues, they believed the "human" is inherently unstable and must be constantly "rewoven" with analogies and metaphors seized from empowering states of being. Jewell's approach to the de Chirico brothers breaks new ground, not only because it brings them together as artists and writers but also because it sets the brothers within the context of myth, history, and Italian culture politics, instead of French surrealism and its aesthetic and psychoanalytic theories. Further, Jewell's strong readings of little-known paintings and notoriously difficult texts like Giorgio de Chirico's Ebd mero will expand and diversify the sources used in modernist studies., In this interdisciplinary book, Keala Jewell reunites Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with his brother, Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), a prolific writer and painter who has been kept at the margins of the discussion of Surrealism and, more generally, the culture politics of twentieth-century Italy. Yet as Jewell demonstrates, the brothers worked together during their formative years in Munich and Paris and always shared, on the one hand, a drive to salvage Mediterranean myth and history and, on the other, a deep involvement with art's power to shape cultural identity and authority. Rather than looking for a key to unlock the secrets of the brothers' recurrent use of dislocated spaces and bizarre hybrid figures, Jewell focuses on assessing the issues of identity and mastery put at stake in the haunting enigmas that characterize their paintings and writings. Deeply impressed by Nietzsche, she argues, they believed the "human" is inherently unstable and must be constantly "rewoven" with analogies and metaphors seized from empowering states of being. Jewell's approach to the de Chirico brothers breaks new ground, not only because it brings them together as artists and writers but also because it sets the brothers within the context of myth, history, and Italian culture politics, instead of French surrealism and its aesthetic and psychoanalytic theories. Further, Jewell's strong readings of little-known paintings and notoriously difficult texts like Giorgio de Chirico's Ebdòmero will expand and diversify the sources used in modernist studies.
LC Classification Number
NX552.Z9D434 2004
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