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Guillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, The Cubist Painters, was first published in 1913. This essential text in twentieth-century art presents the poet and critic's aesthetic meditations on nine painters: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp. As Picasso's closest friend and Marie Laurencin's lover, Apollinaire witnessed the development of Cubism firsthand. This collection of essays and reviews, written between 1905 and 1912, is a milestone in the history of art criticism, valued today as both a work of reference and a classic example of modernist creative writing. In addition to a faithful and fluid translation of Apollinaire's text, Peter Read provides his own scholarly analysis of its importance in the history of modernism. He examines Apollinaire's art criticism, his relationship to the Cubist movement, and, more specifically, the genesis of Cubist Painters through its various revisions and proofs. Supported by all forty-five plates from the original edition, this new volume brings Apollinaire's vitality and vision to life for a new generation.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520243544
ISBN13:9780520243545
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Geometrical vision for today's generation.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I purchased this book to grasp an understanding about the group of paintersknow as the Cubists. Sure we all know about Picasso and his cubist phases. But I wanted a discourse on the other members of the group. This book is wonderfully translated by Peter Read from the original 1913 printing by Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire witnessed the blossoming and development of the Cubist movement firsthand. His writings not being the quinessential Cubist "history" book nonetheless is quite an enjoyable read. Being a close friend of the Cubists he brings an aire of what each of the members of the group brought to the movement. At times his writing is poetic and even dramatic. A prose style incorporating anecdotes and lyrical passeges. And that is the fresh perspective which this montage brings.
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