Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918 [Illustrated] (Paperback)

~ Guillaume Apollinaire (Author), Roger Shattuck (Author), LeRoy Breunig (Editor)

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Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still today the most evocative commentator on the intellectual ferment of the time. In 1905 he championed Picasso and in 1907 he promoted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp and prescient. He first identified the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, and Rousseau, coined the word "Surrealism," and almost singlehandedly pushed Cubism into the mainstream. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck, this edition of "Apollinaire on Art" is the only collection in English of these seminal and ever fresh writings.

"This lively translation...presents as racy and piquant an account of the period as could possibly be desired." "The New York Times", "Apollinaire invented the art world in the minds of writers, where it persists as a myth so seductive that subsequent, real art worlds have been despised for not resembling it." Peter Schjeldahl

Edited by LeRoy C. Breunig. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck.
16 b&w.
5.5 x 8.25 in.

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Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: MFA Publications; Reprint edition (August 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878466266
• ISBN-13: 978-0878466269
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
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