The Foundation Giorgio e Isa de Chirico is pleased to announce the publication of \u00abMetaphysical Art \u2013 The de Chirico Journals\u00bb no. 21\/22 (2022), a biennial periodical dedicated to recent scholarship on Giorgio de Chirico\u2019s art with contributions by internationally recognized academics as well as a new generation of researchers.
\nThe artist\u2019s correspondence with Fritz Gartz (1909\u20131911), which has been reproduced in high resolution images, transcribed, and translated into English, is the main subject of this issue. Additionally, the letters come with an essay by Simonetta Antellini that discusses de Chirico\u2019s writing style and use of the German language, as well as by some notes on the English translation by Francesco Caruso, which shed a new light on the Master\u2019s vocabulary and providing a systematic interpretation for some of the most controversial passages of the correspondence.
\nThe letters\u2019 publication puts an end to the contentious topic of Metaphysics\u2019 historical development, which was chronologically reconstructed in Lorenzo Canova\u2019s article and succinctly discussed in Paolo Picozza\u2019s editorial for the Foundation. The essay by Fabio Benzi examines Florence\u2019s cultural environment in the years 1910\u20131911 and analyzes the musical, artistic, literary, and philosophical milieu in which Metaphysics was born and the two de Chirico brothers operated.
\nElena Pontiggia\u2019s contribution to the volume, which discusses a large and as of yet unpublished collection of letters written by de Chirico to his mother Gemma Cervetto and recently acquired by the Foundation, offers a more intimate and fascinating look into the lives of the two Dioscuri. Riccardo Dottori\u2019s dense article offers a new interpretation of the Pictor Optimus\u2019 painting Serenata (1910), based on a fresh literary source: On the Cave of the Nymphs by the ancient Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, with which de Chirico became familiar through Leopardi. Finally, the extraordinary narrative essay by Italo Calvino entitled Cities of Thought (1983), published alongside the major Paris retrospective of de Chirico\u2019s metaphysical works, translated into English and introduced by Anne Greeley, completes the volume.
\nAs is customary, this issue of \u00abMetaphysical Art\u00bb closes with a description of the Foundation\u2019s activities and publications for 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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