28. Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer’s Recompense,...

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Description: The Soothsayer's Recompense

TitleThe Soothsayer's Recompense

Creator nameChirico, Giorgio de

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1913

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions53 1/2 × 71 in

LocationThe Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51288.html

Accession number1950-134-38

SubjectsClassical influencesArcades (Architecture)Metaphysical school (Art movement)

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4. Untimely Objects: The Evil Genius of a King

Ara H. Merjian

Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris

An orange cone pokes out of a slate-blue base, notched with indecipherable markings, huddled in the shadow of a lopsided frame; an orb of emerald green perches miraculously on an inclined plank, showing off its intersecting parabolas; a reddish polyhedron scored with strange ciphers inches upward against the same vertiginously tipped plane (Fig. 140). Bounded by a...

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Ara H. Merjian

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.171-217

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00059.008

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Chapter subject tags:Metaphysics in artToys in artDivinationArchitecture in art

Chapter 2: The Garden as Art

Peter Walker, Melanie Louise Simo

Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape

Three of the most provocative landscape designers of our time have come to the field without formal training in landscape architecture. Born in the Western Hemisphere at the dawn of the twentieth century, Roberto Burle Marx, Luis Barragán, and Isamu Noguchi pursued a range of arts and sciences...

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Peter Walker, Melanie Louise Simo

PublisherMIT Press

Related print edition pages: pp.56-91

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00070.006

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape architectureGardensArchitecture, ModernUrban parksModernism (Art)

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