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Moody Attunement in Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical City
Author(s) -
Weston Dagmar Motycka
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2276
Subject(s) - attunement , realm , metaphysics , relation (database) , german , romance , aesthetics , philosophy , art , art history , sociology , epistemology , literature , history , archaeology , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology , database , computer science
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 historian Dagmar 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 ).