Apollinaire: Friend, Poet, Confidant, Brother.
by Bernadette Caille
Summary
- >> Apollinaire, the friend “to life, to death”.
- >> Apollinaire, Picasso's first theoretician
- >> The third man, Max Jacob
- >> Two artists who question all possibilities
- >> The attraction for the arts of other civilizations, a challenge to ambient puritanism.
- >> Attendance and construction of the avant-gardes
- >> Facilities in Montparnasse
- >> War, from wounds to poems
- >> The Italian shock and its popular cultures
- >> A passionate dialogue and abandoned projects.
Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a poet, storyteller, novelist, journalist, playwright, art critic, pornographer, publisher and even a bank clerk for a while, although journalism was always his main occupation. He was considered a true erudite, but his real passion was poetry.