GIOVANNI LORETO [GIORGIO DE CHIRICO]

摘要

Typed on three sheets of thin paper, this essay-written in French and bearing the simple title "Giorgio de Chirico"-arrived at the editorial offices of L'esprit nouveau on December 29, 1921. Signed "Giovanni Loreto," the text has since been demonstrated to have been written by the eponymous artist himself, who made frequent use of pseudonyms in promoting his own work.1 Underscoring the architectonic sensibility of his Metaphysical painting and its consequence for the contemporary avant-garde, de Chirico appeals here to the affinities of the journal's editors, Le Corbusier and Amedee Ozenfant. His efforts were ultimately in vain however, as the essay was never published. It remains in the archive of the Fondation Corbusier.