Guillaume Apollinaire at the center of the avant-garde in the Jean Bonna library.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23591 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 168 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2011 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851948045 |
From 1909 – the year of publication of L'enchanteur pourrissant – until his death in 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire occupied a central place within the new poetic and artistic movements. Also an art critic, he stood on the front line of modern painting, promoting its research. Some of his collections are the result of the dialogue between the poet and his painter friends (Derain, Dufy): unprecedented relationships are formed between text and image. From this instance of "modernity", the Jean Bonna library preserves essential milestones, first editions and dedications, which testify to Apollinaire's role at the heart of the movement. This bundle of autograph signs (sentences, but also letters addressed or received by the poet) testifies to as many encounters, friendships and sometimes loves (Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Marie Laurencin, Marcoussis, Metzinger, Picabia). From this collection, Édouard Graham proposes to sketch a journey through Apollinaire's aesthetics, and to retrace the essential role he played in the diffusion of the artistic and literary movements of his time. This volume, following Passages d'encre published by Gallimard which already listed some of the rare pieces preserved in Jean Bonna's library, contains numerous unpublished reproductions of unique documents.
From 1909 – the year of publication of L'enchanteur pourrissant – until his death in 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire occupied a central place within the new poetic and artistic movements. Also an art critic, he stood on the front line of modern painting, promoting its research. Some of his collections are the result of the dialogue between the poet and his painter friends (Derain, Dufy): unprecedented relationships are formed between text and image. From this instance of "modernity", the Jean Bonna library preserves essential milestones, first editions and dedications, which testify to Apollinaire's role at the heart of the movement. This bundle of autograph signs (sentences, but also letters addressed or received by the poet) testifies to as many encounters, friendships and sometimes loves (Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Marie Laurencin, Marcoussis, Metzinger, Picabia). From this collection, Édouard Graham proposes to sketch a journey through Apollinaire's aesthetics, and to retrace the essential role he played in the diffusion of the artistic and literary movements of his time. This volume, following Passages d'encre published by Gallimard which already listed some of the rare pieces preserved in Jean Bonna's library, contains numerous unpublished reproductions of unique documents.