Apollinaire, Cubism and Orphism - Hardcover

Hicken, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840146052 ISBN 13: 9781840146059

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

During the years before his death in 1918 Apollinaire’s reputation as poet and artistic animateur approached legendary proportions. This book is the first to present an extensive reassessment of Apollinaire’s role in the promotion of themes and iconography amongst his painter friends. Detailed analysis of the poetic subject matter of selected works of Dufy, Delaunay, de Chirico, Laurencin, Marcoussis, Metzinger, Picabia and Picasso is used to reconstruct the responses of these artists to Apollinaire’s artistic and aesthetic proclivities. Drawing attention to the poet’s immersion in the art and iconography of the French late-Renaissance and the seventeenth century, Adrian Hicken shows that the study of the permeation of Apollinairean and Orphic imagery in the work of artists with very different personalities presents a fascinating and pivotal episode in the history of Parisian modernism.

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About the Author:

Adrian Hicken, Bath Spa University College, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840146052
• ISBN 13: 9781840146059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272