Chronicle of heroic times.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23694 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 135 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377920723 |
Max Jacob met Pablo Picasso in 1901 in Paris. A fraternal friendship ensued, making him an almost daily witness to Picasso's work. From 1921 onwards, contacts were more relaxed, but there were signs of a bond that was never truly broken. Although he sometimes expressed a pathetic jealousy of the painter, it was always Picasso he designated as his hero (alongside Apollinaire or Salmon) when he had to write about the period on Rue Ravignan. Also, upon the death of the art dealer Paul Guillaume, his widow asked him for a preface to a volume of her husband's memoirs. The project would become this fundamental account of Cubism: La chronique des temps héroïques, begun in 1935, of which only the beginning appeared during Max Jacob's lifetime in 1937. It was in 1956 that Louis Broder would produce a limited edition, with etchings by Picasso, based on a complete manuscript of the eight chapters. This is the text of our edition, which has never been reprinted since. Yet there is no testimony as vivid and direct as this one on the adventure of modern art, from the Montmartre bohemianism to the escapades of the Roaring Twenties.
Max Jacob met Pablo Picasso in 1901 in Paris. A fraternal friendship ensued, making him an almost daily witness to Picasso's work. From 1921 onwards, contacts were more relaxed, but there were signs of a bond that was never truly broken. Although he sometimes expressed a pathetic jealousy of the painter, it was always Picasso he designated as his hero (alongside Apollinaire or Salmon) when he had to write about the period on Rue Ravignan. Also, upon the death of the art dealer Paul Guillaume, his widow asked him for a preface to a volume of her husband's memoirs. The project would become this fundamental account of Cubism: La chronique des temps héroïques, begun in 1935, of which only the beginning appeared during Max Jacob's lifetime in 1937. It was in 1956 that Louis Broder would produce a limited edition, with etchings by Picasso, based on a complete manuscript of the eight chapters. This is the text of our edition, which has never been reprinted since. Yet there is no testimony as vivid and direct as this one on the adventure of modern art, from the Montmartre bohemianism to the escapades of the Roaring Twenties.