{"product_id":"picasso-and-apollinaire-the-persistence-of-memory-9780520243613","title":"Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003ePablo Picasso  the inventor of Cubism  and Guillaume Apollinaire  the inventor of Surrealism  met in 1905  forged a close friendship  and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaires death in the 1918 flu epidemic did not diminish his importance to Picasso  who continued to draw on the poet for inspiration until his own death in 1973. Picasso and Apollinaire is a lively and impeccably researched examination of the creative interaction and fraternal complicity between the artist and the poet  as reflected in such works as Picassos polymorphous portraits of Apollinaire  his 1907 drawings for Apollinaires Bestiary poems  and the self-portrait he drew on the night the poet died. Peter Read delves into unpublished archive documents to show that many of Picassos subsequent drawings  paintings  and sculptures were shaped by his response to the poets most lyrical and uninhibited writing. Along with an authoritative discussion of Apollinaires best poetry  prose  and critical writing  the book opens unexpected pathways through Picassos career-his early exhibitions in Paris  the fierce iron reliquary Woman in a Garden his commemorative  semi-abstract painting The Kitchen  his monument to Apollinaire in Saint-Germain-des-Prs-and throws new light on the cultural and political context in which these works were produced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652122763317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520243617","price":39.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520243613.jpg?v=1781849318","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/picasso-and-apollinaire-the-persistence-of-memory-9780520243613","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}