The Cubist Painters (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
Contributors: Peter Read (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780520243538
Subjects: Cubism; Painting & paintings; Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / General
Description: "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 Leger, 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."--Jacket.