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Conclusion: Urban Untimely
Ara H. Merjian
Description: Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris
Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris
~The sweltering August of 1914 saw German monoplanes criss-cross the skies above Paris. Inciting the French to surrender – de Chirico recalls in his midcentury memoirs – they dropped leaflets and streamers. Bombs followed soon after. A sidewalk turned, one morning, into a...
Author
Ara H. Merjian
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2014 by Ara H. Merjian
Related print edition pages: pp.267-275
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00059.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18590
Chapter subject tags:Metaphysics in artCities and towns in artArchitecture in artArt, ModernWar in art

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