Catalog of an exhibition held at6945 bPalazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Feb. 26-July 18, 2010. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Graziella Battaglia. Introduction / Paolo Baldacci, Guido Magnaguagno, Gerd Roos -- Artists' biographies / Wieland Schmied -- The birth and first steps of Metaphysical art in Milan and Florence between 1908 and 1911 / Gerd Roos -- The nationalization of Metaphysical art and the birth of the Italian Squares : on the critical reception of De Chirico between 1912 and 1919 / Paolo Baldacci -- The Metaphysical Carrà during the war years, 1917-8 / Federica Rovati -- Giorgio Morandi : "the metaphysics of the most common objects" / Maria Cristina Bandera -- Max Ernst : "shaking off one's blindness" / Jürgen Pech -- "Influenced by the very latest modern art" : on Niklaus Stoecklin's œuvre, 1917-30 / Ulrich Gerster -- Magritte : between De Chirico and Balthus / Guido Magnaguagno -- Balthus : waiting for the spectacle / Robert Kopp -- Alberto Savinio's "skirmish with the invisible" / Nicoletta Cardano -- Arturo Nathan : the imaginary world of a painter-dreamer / Flavia Matitti -- Pierre Roy's portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire, after Giorgio de Chirico / Dieter Schwarz -- Catalogue -- De Chrico in the James Thrall Soby collection / Tobias Garst -- The invisible identity of the chimney / Jan Svenungsson -- Artists' biographies / Graziella Battaglia.
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