Apollinaire: Poet Among The Painters
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the turbulent heart of the Parisian avant-garde stands Guillaume Apollinaire — poet, critic, provocateur, and the magnetic thread connecting the most revolutionary artistic minds of the early twentieth century. Francis Steegmuller's Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters chronicles the remarkable life of this enigmatic figure, tracing his journey from illegitimate outsider to the celebrated champion of Cubism and Surrealism, intimate friend of Picasso, Braque, and Marie Laurencin, and the voice that gave modern art its language and its courage. Steegmuller brings his hallmark scholarly precision and narrative elegance to bear on a subject as contradictory and dazzling as Paris itself — presenting Apollinaire not merely as a biographical subject but as a cultural force whose influence rippled across poetry, painting, and aesthetic theory. The biography illuminates the profound interplay between literary and visual modernism, arguing that Apollinaire's life cannot be separated from the art that surrounded and shaped him. Rich in archival detail yet compulsively readable, this is a portrait of a man who invented the future of art while living, brilliantly and briefly, on the knife's edge of history — leaving the reader to wonder what further revolutions he might have wrought had fate allowed.
Author: Francis Steegmuller
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turbulent heart of the Parisian avant-garde stands Guillaume Apollinaire — poet, critic, provocateur, and the magnetic thread connecting the most revolutionary artistic minds of the early twentieth century. Francis Steegmuller's Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters chronicles the remarkable life of this enigmatic figure, tracing his journey from illegitimate outsider to the celebrated champion of Cubism and Surrealism, intimate friend of Picasso, Braque, and Marie Laurencin, and the voice that gave modern art its language and its courage. Steegmuller brings his hallmark scholarly precision and narrative elegance to bear on a subject as contradictory and dazzling as Paris itself — presenting Apollinaire not merely as a biographical subject but as a cultural force whose influence rippled across poetry, painting, and aesthetic theory. The biography illuminates the profound interplay between literary and visual modernism, arguing that Apollinaire's life cannot be separated from the art that surrounded and shaped him. Rich in archival detail yet compulsively readable, this is a portrait of a man who invented the future of art while living, brilliantly and briefly, on the knife's edge of history — leaving the reader to wonder what further revolutions he might have wrought had fate allowed.