Picasso & Apollinaire : the persistence of memory / Peter Read.
Read, Peter (Peter F.)
2008
N6853.P5 R4313 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Picasso & Apollinaire : the persistence of memory / Peter Read.
Author Read, Peter (Peter F.)
Uniform Title Picasso et Apollinaire. English
ISBN 9780520243613 (alk. paper)
0520243617 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Language English
Language Note Translated from French.
Description xvi, 317 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number N6853.P5 R4313 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.2 B
Summary "Pablo Picasso, the inventor of Cubism, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the inventor of Surrealism, met in 1905, forged a close friendship, and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaire's death in the 1918 flu epidemic did not diminish his importance to Picasso, who continued to draw on the poet for inspiration until his own death in 1973. Picasso and Apollinaire is a lively and impeccably researched examination of the creative interaction and fraternal complicity between the artist and the poet, as reflected in such works as Picasso's polymorphous portraits of Apollinaire, his 1907 drawings for Apollinaire's Bestiary poems, and the self-portrait he drew on the night the poet died. Peter Read delves into unpublished archive documents to show that many of Picasso's subsequent drawings, paintings, and sculptures were shaped by his response to the poet's most lyrical and uninhibited writing. Along with an authoritative discussion of Apollinaire's best poetry, prose, and critical writing, the book opens unexpected pathways through Picasso's career-his early exhibitions in Paris, the fierce iron reliquary Woman in a Garden his commemorative, semi-abstract painting The Kitchen, his monument to Apollinaire in Saint-Germain-des-Prés-and throws new light on the cultural and political context in which these works were produced."--Jacket.
Note "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
First Encounters
Inside the Bateau Lavoir
Circuses and Saltimbanques
Apollinaire's Collection of Works by Picasso
From Caricature to Cubism: Picasso's Portraits of Apollinaire
From Blaise Pascal to Fantomas: A Shared Literary Landscape
Outside the Academy: From Douanier Rousseau to Tribal Art
The Bestiary, Drawings and Poems
The Iberian Statues Affair, 1907-1912
Apollinaire Writing on Picasso in 1905
Apollinaire at the Birth of Cubism: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Writing on Picasso after 1910
Picasso in Apollinaire's Fiction
Art and Poetry in Dialogue
Picasso's Frontispiece for Alcools
The Great War
The First Matisse and Picasso Exhibition: The Orange and the Pearl
The Final Months: Picasso and Apollinaire in 1918
Campaigning for a Tomb
Scandalous Sculptures: Rodin, Epstein, and Picasso
Commemorative Paintings and the Apollinaire Auction
Picasso and Surrealism
Androgynous Bathers and Metamorphosis
Drawings in Space: The Wire Maquettes
Welded Metal Monuments: Head of a Man and Head of a Woman
Woman in a Garden
The Phantom Tomb
November 1948: The Kitchen
From Brancusi to Matisse: New Commemorative Projects
Head of Dora Maar: An Apollinaire Monument for Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Monumental Sculptures, Large Scale and Lost
Conclusion.

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