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...dean of Italian painters takes a dim view of modern art, even when it is" his own. Giorgio de Chirico, 63, would like to be known for the neoclassical nudes and warriors, done in lush, candy-box style, which he paints today. Instead, he is famed for the works of his youth: surrealistic cityscapes laced with long shadows. Such pictures simply embarrass De Chirico nowadays. Last week his embarrassment was acute...
...Painter Giorgio de Chirico may be considered old hat at 62, but he wears his bowler with a difference. As the once-reigning genius of Italy's avant-garde "metaphysical school," De Chirico foreshadowed surrealism before World War I, then abandoned such enigmatic art to peddle a perfectly understandable brand of neoclassicism...
...Uncle Giorgio thought that Anisetta was going to do a lot for the boy, but he didn't rely altogether on her simplicity and good looks to bring Aquila to his senses. When they got married, Giorgio presented them with all the forged money and papers needed for a trip to England and escorted them off to let Aquila meet the great Professor Lissom in person...
...week in the country. Before she went off, Anisetta wrote a note that she thought would surely bring Aquila in pursuit, cure him of being progressive once & for all: "Have gone to live in sin for a week with Professor Lissom, back Tuesday lunch-your loving wife A." Uncle Giorgio thought the note would be enough, too, but it wasn't. After all, jealousy was bourgeois and old hat, and no true progressive would deny his wife her emotional and physical freedom. When he thought it over, Aquila was delighted to find that Anisetta was picking up modern behavior...
...Uncle Giorgio, Anisetta and Author Menen's fans have to go through a lot more before Aquila sees the light. After the professor comes a French existentialist count, after him a comic American from Ohio, and then a comic psychiatrist. Finally, to Uncle Giorgio's great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books...