Moody Attunement in Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical City. (1st March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weston, Dagmar Motycka
• Other Names: Spiller Neil guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 30
• Page End: 35
• Publication Date: 2018-03-01
• Subjects: Piazza Santa Croce -- Florence -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Melanconia -- Ariadne -- Theseus -- Dionysos -- Naxos -- Turin -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- mood and atmosphere (Stimmung) -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Cartesian dualism -- Albrecht Dürer -- Melencolia I -- Gustav Schultze -- Delphic Oracle -- Martin Heidegger -- Self Portrait (What shall I love if not the enigma?) -- Michelangelo -- Raphael's The School of Athens -- Sleeping Ariadne -- the Vatican -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Umberto Boccioni -- Head and Window; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2276
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Overly pragmatic conceptions of the city pose a threat to the urban public realm. The Surrealist view offers an alternative. It is explored here by architectural theorist and historianDagmar Motycka Weston, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, through the work of the Greek‐Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, which posits other ways to conceive of cities – particularly in relation to the German Romantic notion of 'moody attunement' ( Stimmung ).