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 ong>theong> frenzied art world of Paris in ong>theong> early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still today ong>theong> most evocative commentator on ong>theong> intellectual ferment of ong>theong> time. In he championed Picasso and in he promoted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp and prescient. He first identified ong>theong> importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, and Rousseau, coined ong>theong> word "Surrealism," and almost singlehandedly pushed Cubism into ong>theong> mainstream. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck, this edition of Apollinaire on Art is ong>theong> only collection in English of ong>theong>se seminal and ever fresh writings.