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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) played a central part in the avant-garde movement that swept through the French literary and artistic circles during the early 20th century. Much of his early history is unknown, and even the origin of his original name remains clouded by contradictions. Like Gertrude Stein, his work was unfluenced by the Cubist movement in the arts. The book Alcools, written in 1913, is considered his greatest work, darting from formal poems (like alexandrines and regular stanzas) to those devoid of rhyme, regularity, and punctuation. [ Click to Order Alcools (tr. Donald Revell - soft $) ]
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Guillaume Apollinaire, the innovator of French poetry, was - like his artist friends - influenced by the rapid succession of frames in silent movies, and he adopted this technique in his own work. At the beginning of this century there was, in general, a great curiosity about new inventions within communications. Apart from trains, automobiles and airplanes, artists recognized entirely new means of expression through the telephone, the wireless telegraph and the phonograph.
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THE FRENCH-ITALIAN-POLISH poet Guillaume Apollinaire wasn't quite sure of his identity. Right in the middle of a hectic life of pleasure in early 20th century Paris, he halted for one moment - and asked himself "who am I", in a stanza without punctuation. He was born in Rome in 1880 and died in P ..
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The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's 'The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read is divided into two parts, first a new translation of the 1913 French text, then Read's own Apollinaire and Cubism, a chapter by chapter commentary. The poet's text, faithfully reproduced down to an approximation of the original design and layout and, for the first time, with the same plates reproducing the discussed artists' works as had been included by Apollinaire, is itself divided into two parts: first a theoretic text, titled Aesthetic Meditations, on the beauties of "modern," i.e. Cubist, painting, and then The Cubist Painters proper, a series of essays on nine French Cubist painters of the day, giving pride of place to Picasso and Braque before continuing to Metzinger, Gleizes, Laurencin, Gris, Léger, Picabia and Duchamp, as well as one sculptor, Duchamp-Villon.
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French poet Guillaume Apollinaire composed drawings with written words in his most important collection of verse, Calligrammes (1918). The poems took the shape of the image they described as in the poems on the page, “La colombe poignardée et le jet d’eau” (“The Stabbed Dove and The Fountain”).
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Guillaume Apollinaire came to spend his holidays in Stavelot when he was 19 years of age. His mother, a Polish aristocrat would visit the casino of Spa. That Summer of 1899 had an appreciable influence on Guillaume’s work.
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