Guillaume Apollinaire Book order

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.

This book offers a faithful reprint of the original edition, focusing on the influential movement of Cubist painters. It delves into the techniques, styles, and philosophies that defined the Cubist era, providing insights into the artists' innovative approaches to form and perspective. The high-quality reproduction ensures that the visual elements are preserved, making it a valuable resource for art enthusiasts and scholars interested in the evolution of modern art.

The letters reveal the intimate thoughts and experiences of Guillaume Apollinaire during World War I, offering a unique glimpse into the life of a renowned poet. Through his correspondence with fiancée Madeleine Pagès, Apollinaire shares memories of his childhood in Rome, insights on literary figures like Racine and Tolstoy, and the harsh realities of soldier life at the front. This collection serves as a poignant reflection on love and creativity amid the horrors of war, appealing to both fans of Apollinaire and those interested in personal narratives from this tumultuous period.

Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett’s fifty-year engagement with the work of France’s greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire’s poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.”

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.

Featuring four previously suppressed poems and reprints of Raoul Dufy woodcuts from the 1911 edition, this concise introduction explores the work of a modern writer. It offers a glimpse into the author's unique style and artistic collaborations, highlighting the significance of these lesser-known pieces in understanding their literary contributions.

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.

Apollinaire - Roman by birth, Polish by name, Parisian by choice - died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists. This title presents Apollinaire's poems.