n. 14/16 (2016)

Life, life, great mysterious dream! All the enigmas you exhibit,
joys and flashes of lightning… foreboding visions.
The moving van turns the corner.
Arcades in the sun. Sleeping statues.
Red smokestacks; nostalgia for unknown horizons.

Giorgio de Chirico
A Life (Poem), 1925

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INDEX

Paolo Picozza

Thirty Years of Safeguarding Giorgio de Chirico’s Art and Intellectual Work

p. 9

GIORGIO DE CHIRCO - THE COMEDY OF MODERN ART

Katherine Robinson

Introduction to The Comedy of Modern Art

p. 17

Part I – Essays by Giorgio de Chirico (1918-1943)

We Metaphysicians

p. 29

Return to Craft

p. 33

On Metaphysical Art

p. 37

Metaphysical Aesthetics

p. 40

Gustave Courbet

p. 42

Architectural Sense In Classical Painting

p. 46

Pictorial Classicism

p. 49

Impressionism

p. 52

Zeuxis the Explorer

p. 54

Max Klinger

p. 55

Thoughts on Classical Painting

p. 62

Auguste Renoir

p. 65

Raphael Sanzio

p. 69

Paul Gauguin

p. 74

Craft and Tradition

p. 78

Te Eternal Question

p. 81

Miscellany

p. 85

A Portrait by Tintoretto

p. 88

Assortment of Truths

p. 90

Part II - Essays by Giorgio de Chirico signed “Isabella Far” (1941-1945)

Introduction

p. 94

Considerations on Modern Painting

p. 95

A Discourse on the Material Substance of Paint

p. 106

Portraits

p. 112

Still Life

p. 116

Landscapes

p. 118

A Discourse on the Nude in Painting

p. 121

Form in Art and Nature

p. 124

A Discourse on Seriousness

p. 127

Theatre Performance

p. 130

Sensitiveness

p. 135

Sincerity

p. 137

On Sacred Art

p. 139

Torment in Art

p. 141

A Discourse on the Mechanism of Tought

p. 144

Masks and Disguises

p. 147

The Metaphysics of Dance

p. 149

Desecrated Reality

p. 152

A Discourse on Mentality

p. 155

Critics or “on Envy”

p. 159

Afterword. Jole de Sanna

Form of the Work (Commedia dell’arte moderna, 2002)

p. 163

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

Willard Bohn

“Arcades in the Sun”: Giorgio de Chirico’s French Poetry

Willard Bohn

Stefania Heim

The Enigma of a Sentence: Translating Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian Poetry

p. 187

Katherine Robinson

Introductory Note

p. 191

Giorgio de Chirico

The Collected Poems of Giorgio de Chirico

p. 195

Bibliographic Note

p. 252

Gabriele Tinti

The Nostalgia of the Poet – An Homage to Giorgio de Chirico

p. 261

ESSAYS

Claudio Strinati

De Chirico in Ferrara - Metaphysical Art and the Avant-garde: Brief Refections

p. 269

Lorenzo Canova

The Arrival of the Revenants: Giorgio de Chirico and Neometaphysical Art at the Frontiers of Time

p. 275

Riccardo Dottori

Dream, Presage and the Disquieting in de Chirico’s Metaphysical Art

p. 301

Fabio Benzi

Giorgio de Chirico, Ardengo Sofci and Rousseau Le Douanier: a New Source on the Birth of Metaphysical Art in Florence

p. 327

Lorella Giudici

Giorgio de Chirico and Rafaello Giolli: a Painter and a Critic in Milan between the Wars - An Unpublished Story

p. 345

Paolo Picozza

Knots, Twists & Turns at Archivio dell’Arte Metafsica. Gerd Roos: three Episodes

p. 357

Davide Spagnoletto

De Chirico’s Drawings: Teory and Technique

p. 371

Cristina Hesse - Piergiuseppe Mecocci

Giorgio de Chirico: an Interpretive Key to the Life and Personality of Giorgio de Chirico seen through the Analysis of his Handwriting (1911-1971)

p. 381

INTERVIEWS

Lorella Giudici

The Savinio and de Chirico Interviews in “Comœdia” 1927

p. 391

M. Alberto Savinio est épris de littérature franco-italienne

p. 395

M. de Chirico, peintre prédit et souhait le triomphe du modernisme (transcriptions of the original French interviews)

p. 397

Mr. Savinio is in Love with Franco-Italian Literature

p. 399

Mr. de Chirico, a Painter Predicts and Hopes for the Triumph of Modernism

p. 401

FONDAZIONE GIORGIO E ISA DE CHIRICO

Scientifc Council

p. 404

The Foundation’s Activities

p. 406

Publications 2014-2016

p. 408

Index of Authors

p. 410