| Description |
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. First Encounters -- 2. Inside the Bateau Lavoir -- 3. Circuses and Saltimbanques -- 4. Apollinaire's Collection of Works by Picasso -- 5. From Caricature to Cubism: Picasso's Portraits of Apollinaire -- 6. From Blaise Pascal to Fantomas: A Shared Literary Landscape -- 7. Outside the Academy: From Douanier Rousseau to Tribal Art -- 8. The Bestiary, Drawings and Poems -- 9. The Iberian Statues Affair, 1907-1912 -- 10. Apollinaire Writing on Picasso in 1905 -- 11. Apollinaire at the Birth of Cubism: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon -- 12. Writing on Picasso after 1910 -- 13. Picasso in Apollinaire's Fiction -- 14. Art and Poetry in Dialogue -- 15. Picasso's Frontispiece for Alcools -- 16. The Great War -- 17. The First Matisse and Picasso Exhibition: The Orange and the Pearl -- 18. The Final Months: Picasso and Apollinaire in 1918 -- 19. Campaigning for a Tomb -- 20. Scandalous Sculptures: Rodin, Epstein, and Picasso -- 21. Commemorative Paintings and the Apollinaire Auction -- 22. Picasso and Surrealism -- 23. Androgynous Bathers and Metamorphosis -- 24. Drawings in Space: The Wire Maquettes -- 25. Welded Metal Monuments: Head of a Man and Head of a Woman -- 26. Woman in a Garden -- 27. The Phantom Tomb -- 28. November 1948: The Kitchen -- 29. From Brancusi to Matisse: New Commemorative Projects -- 30. Head of Dora Maar: An Apollinaire Monument for Saint-Germain-des-Pres -- 31. Monumental Sculptures, Large Scale and Lost |
| Summary |
"Picasso and Apollinaire is an 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 Peter Read delves into unpublished archive documents to show that many of Picasso's subsequent drawings, paintings, and sculptures were shaped by his response to the poet's most lyrical and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-Pres - and throws new light on the cultural and political context in which these works were produced."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index |
| Subject |
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Friends and associates.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Relations with authors
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Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 -- Friends and associates.
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Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 -- Relations with artists
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Art and literature.
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| LC no. |
2007032938 |
| ISBN |
9780520243613 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520243617 cloth alkaline paper |
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