Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Breunig, LeRoy C. / Shattuck, Roger / Suleiman, Susan Rubin, PUBLISHER: MFA Publications, 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 ong>andong> antipathies, ong>andong> his remarkable acumen, make him still today the most evocative commentator on the intellectual ferment of the time. In he championed Picasso ong>andong> in he ong>proong>moted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp ong>andong> prescient. He first identified the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, ong>andong> Rousseau, coined the word "Surrealism," ong>andong> almost singlehong>andong>edly 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 ong>andong> ever fresh writings.