Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918

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Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918 is written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by New York : Viking Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0670019194 (ISBN 10) and 9780670019199 (ISBN 13).

Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still today the most evocative commentator on the intellectual ferment of the time. In 1905 he championed Picasso and in 1907 he promoted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp and prescient. He first identified the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, and Rousseau, coined the word "Surrealism," and almost singlehandedly pushed Cubism into the mainstream. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck, this edition of Apollinaire on Art is the only collection in English of these seminal and ever fresh writings.