Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943].

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Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270870147

An essay about modern art criticism, criticizing intellectuals who promote "the ugliness, the nullity, the stupidity of modern painting" at the expense of "serious, clear, virile, powerful painting"; asserting that these critics champion "pseudo-painting" in order to "mask and camouflage their own inability" because "they are afraid of the appearance of a painting that, to be observed, admired, estimated, and bought does not need the help of anyone's speech, of pseudo-intelligent chatter, of all that empty, pretentious, hysterical, and most of all, immensely stupid, in certain cases even phony and hypocritically lyric, passionate and sentimental rhetoric"; and decrying critics' obsession with "primitives."

1 item (5 p.) ; 30.7 cm. (final leaf: 28.4 cm.)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978

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Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verita (essay), ca. 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81610064 Greek-born Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870147 ...