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The painter's unpublished novel, an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical hero—a painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories. Translated from the Italian for the first time into English.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: A Public Space
Imprint: A Public Space Books
Publication Date:
10 December 2024
Trim Size: 7.25 X 4.75 in
ISBN: 9781736370988
Format: Paperback
"The relationship between the artist and their audience has been analyzed and fetishized by critics ad nauseam, but Mr. Dudron provides a fresh perspective from the artist’s point of view."
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was born in Greece to Italian parents. A gifted and prolific painter, de Chirico is considered the founder of the metaphysical school of art and a significant influence on the surrealists. Over the course of his long career, he was involved with many of the twentieth century’s major art-world figures: he designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and set productions for Luigi Pirandello; he was photographed by Irving Penn. De Chirico was also a prolific writer. His French writing has been translated by John Ashbery, Louise Bourgeois, and others. His Italian poems, translated by Stefania Heim, were collected in Geometry of Shadows.