Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory

Read, Peter

ISBN 10: 0520265920 / ISBN 13: 9780520265929

Verlag: University of California Press, 2010

Beschreibung

Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0520265920Z3

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520265920
• ISBN-13: 9780520265929
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Pablo Picasso, the inventor of Cubism, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the inventor of Surrealism, met in 1905, forged a close friendship, and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaire's death in the 1918 flu epidemic did not diminish his importance to Picasso, who continued to draw on the poet for inspiration until his own death in 1973. "Picasso and Apollinaire" is a lively and impeccably researched examination of the creative interaction and fraternal complicity between the artist and the poet, as reflected in such works as Picasso's polymorphous portraits of Apollinaire, his 1907 drawings for Apollinaire's Bestiary poems, and the self-portrait he drew on the night the poet died. Peter Read delves into unpublished archive documents to show that many of Picasso's subsequent drawings, paintings, and sculptures were shaped by his response to the poet's most lyrical and uninhibited writing. Along with an authoritative discussion of Apollinaire's best poetry, prose, and critical writing, the book opens unexpected pathways through Picasso's career-his early exhibitions in Paris, the fierce iron reliquary "Woman in a Garden" his commemorative, semi-abstract painting "The Kitchen", his monument to Apollinaire in Saint-Germain-des-Pres-and throws new light on the cultural and political context in which these works were produced.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Read is Professor of French at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. He is the translator of Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters (UC Press) and the author of Picasso et Apollinaire: Les metamorphoses de la memoire, which he has extensively revised for this English-language edtion.