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