中文简介：

乔治·德·基里科（Giorgio de Chirico）是20世纪最具争议和影响的艺术家之一，他是巴黎前卫艺术的主要成员，对其他艺术家、作家、诗人和电影制片人产生了重大影响。他的作品创造出荒凉空旷的形象，包括空旷的拱廊、拉长的影子、人体模型和火车等图案。在大战之后，他转向了新古典主义，并与超现实主义者和主流现代主义运动发生了激烈的争执。本书以新的档案研究为基础，深入研究了他的生活和工作，提出了新的看法，探讨了他与超现实主义、法西斯主义、赝品和欧洲先锋派的关系。

英文简介：

Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentieth century a key member of the Paris avant-garde, he was a major influence on other artists, especially the nascent surrealists. His repertoire of motifs empty arcades, elongated shadows, mannequins, trains created images of forlorn emptiness that became iconic. After the Great War, he turned toward neoclassicism and bitterly fell out with the surrealists and the mainstream modernist movement in the process, becoming an outspoken outsider of the art world. This in-depth examination of the artist s life and work by the world s foremost de Chirico authority is based on new archival research and offers a fresh view of de Chirico s relationship with surrealism, fascism, forgery, and the European avant-gardes.