GUILLAUME APOLLNAIRE
Poetry
Apollinaire was a prolific French language write from Banquet Years Paris, who is one of the most significant forces in the birth of Modernist culture. He coined the names Cubism, Surrealism and Orphism.
His livres des peintres embodied both the tradition of the medieval illuminated book and the Symbolist tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk - the notion of an artwork that was a synthesis of different disciplines. His Bestiary, begun in co-operation with Picasso but continued with Dufy embodied this, as did his Vitam Impendere Amore and The Decaying Enchanter. A version of his Alcohols was also planned as a livre de peintre with Marcoussis.
The Flowerdew Press is pleased to announce a series of mimotypes of Apollinaire's works, beginning with:
