Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, writer, and art critic, recognized as one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century. He is credited with coining the term surrealism and authored one of the earliest works described as surrealist. His contributions were pivotal to the avant-garde art and literary movements of his era, leaving a significant mark on modern expression.
When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of only thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre to Montparnasse, he had helped formulate the principles of 'Cubism', having written one of the first books on the subject, and coined the word 'Surrealist'; and he had demonstrated in his own work those innovations we have come to associate with the most vital investigations of the avente - garde.
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Debauched aristocrat Mony Vibesco and a circle of fellow degenerates blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust and depravity across the streets of Europe. A young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of aunt and sister as he is expertly schooled in the finer arts of Venus. Les Onze Mille Verges and Les Memoires D'Un Jeune Don Juan are the two notoriously wild and explicit erotic novellas crafted by Dadaist poet Guillaume Apollinaire at the turn of this century. Apollinaire fine-tuned his uniquely poetic and surreal vision to produce these two masterpieces of literary erotica, works which compare with the best of the Marquis de Sade. Both books are presented here in complete and unexpurgated versions for the very first time in English, in translations by Alexis Lykiard, with full introduction and annotation.
Apollinaire is the most significant French poet of early modernism and the only great First World War poet from France. He coined the word 'surrealism' and was at the forefront of literary and artistic experimentalism. This new selection covers the full range of his career in facing-page translations, with some pictorial calligrams.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines-with this painting, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin.Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity’s crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.
Exploring the intersection of life and art, the memoir accompanying the English translation of Seated Woman delves into Guillaume Apollinaire's engagement with various avant-garde movements like Symbolism and Cubism. The posthumously published work, characterized by its diverse tones and fragmented structure, reflects on the complexities of urban modernism and the impacts of the Great War. Apollinaire's writing captures both creative vitality and the fragility of artistic expression, offering readers a profound experience of his distinctive voice and insights into the era’s cultural landscape.
Apollinaires Bestiarium ist ein poetisches Spiel, das mit Leichtigkeit Mythen und Traditionen verbindet. In Anlehnung an mittelalterliche Tierbücher schafft er überraschende Verknüpfungen zwischen griechischer Sage und christlicher Überlieferung. Es bleibt ein unterhaltsames Werk, das auch persönliche Elemente einbezieht.
