Giorgio de Chirico Lettere 1909-1929


The publication includes the collection of Giorgio de Chirico’s letters, both work-related and personal, from the years 1909-1929, in the original language, Italian, French, German and Modern Greek (with Italian translation).

“Reading de Chirico’s letters from the two crucial decades of 1909 to 1929 is like a voyage into the 20^th century’s art and thought. It is a one-way trip: even though the recipients (Apollinaire, Soffici, Papini, Carrà, Breton, Eluard, to mention only a few), conserved his letters and passed them on to the history of art, the sender did not keep a single page of those of his illustrious interlocutors. And yet, notwithstanding this uninterrupted monologue, his letters tell us much. The letters lead us directly to the heart of the classical ideal that affirmed itself after the war, of which de Chirico was one of the fathers.”
Elena Pontiggia

Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2018
Series: biblioteca d’arte contemporanea n. 37
Pages: 445
Original letters in Italian, French, German and Modern Greek greco (with Italian translation)
ISBN: 978-88-3664-164-2
Cover: G. de Chirico, The Fatal Temple, 1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art
In collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico