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Guillaume Apollinaire's only book on art, The Cubist Painters, was first published in 1913. This essential text in twentieth-century art presents the poet and critic's aesthetic meditations on nine painters: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Juan Gris, Fernand L#65533;ger, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp. As Picasso's closest friend and Marie Laurencin's lover, Apollinaire witnessed the development of Cubism firsthand. This collection of essays and reviews, written between 1905 and 1912, is a milestone in the history of art criticism, valued today as both a work of reference and a classic example of modernist creative writing.

In addition to a faithful and fluid translation of Apollinaire's text, Peter Read provides his own scholarly analysis of its importance in the history of modernism. He examines Apollinaire's art criticism, his relationship to the Cubist movement, and, more specifically, the genesis of Cubist Painters through its various revisions and proofs. Supported by all forty-five plates from the original edition, this new volume brings Apollinaire's vitality and vision to life for a new generation.

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• Publisher's Foreword
• Part 1 The Cubist Painters
• On Painting New Painters
• Appendix
• Note
• Plates
• Part 2 Apollinaire and Cubism
• Apollinaire as Art Critic Before
• The Cubist Painters Apollinaire and Cubism
• The Cubist Painters
• Genesis of the Book The Cubist Painters
• Structure, Style and Modern Beauty
• The Cubist Paintersand the Enemies of Cubism Aesthetic Meditations
• The Cubist Painters Critical Response to The Cubist Painters Translations
• Conclusion
• Biographical
• Notes
• Bibliography

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With his fluid translation of Apollinaire's essays on cubism, Read has given a new lease on life to an essential document of the history of modern art. In effect, this is two superb books in one. Read (St. Andrew's, Edinburgh) is a noted scholar of French culture and author of the most important study of Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso. His annotations and extended essay, which accompany Apollinaire's writings here, offer important historical context that was absent from the long out-of-print English-language editions of this book. Read's essays contextualize, complement, and expand Apollinaire's work in language that is as accessible and stimulating as that of the original text. Readers may now discover anew the poetic and incisive commentary of Apollinaire's influential art criticism. First audiences will include those interested in modernism, art history, art criticism, and French culture. Advanced students of modern art and its critics will find this edition especially useful, for it is well suited to generate classroom discussion. This version follows the format of the first French edition of 1913, even reprinting the original black-and-white photographs. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. J. E. Housefield Texas State University-San Marcos

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Guillaume Apollinaire is one of the most widely read and influential of modern French poets. He was born either in Rome, where he was baptized, or in Monaco, where he was educated at the Lycee Saint-Charles.

Quintessentially modern, his reputation rests principally on two volumes of poems-Alcools (1913) and Calligrammes (1918), which broke with the traditions of nineteenth-century poetry in both form and content. Apollinaire introduced free verse, eliminated punctuation, and even wrote poems in the form of pictures to express the dynamism of the new twentieth century.

Apollinaire wrote novels, short stories, and plays as well as poetry. He wrote The Cubist Painters (1913), which first defined the nature of cubism. In addition, he edited for the Bibliotheque des Curieux erotic books of repute and helped to catalogue the repository of forbidden books in the Bibliotheque Nationale. He became the friend of great cubists, including Picasso and Braque.

He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918.

(Bowker Author Biography)