Apollinaire, cubism and orphism / Adrian Hicken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicken, Adrian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918.

Orphism (Art)--France.

Orphism (Art).

Cubism--France.

Cubism.

France.

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918--Influence.

Apollinaire, Guillaume.

Physical Description:

xxv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

i La Ville Lumiere: Apollinaire in Paris 1

ii Hermeticism and occult tendencies within Parisian avantgardes 8

iii Cubism, Orphism and four-dimensional speculations 15

iv Orphic surnaturalisme 18

2 Apollinaire's humanistic Orphism (1908-12) 41

i The library of the poet: humanisme 41

ii Orpheus: the permeation of Apollinairean themes before 1912 44

iii Delaunay: La Ville de Paris (1912) 51

3 Towards an Orphic programme for the arts (1913-14) 55

i Le pigeonnier: the circle of Apollinaire 55

ii The burgeoning of Apollinairean themes and motifs 79

iii Gloire au poete: some emblematic celebrations of the Orphic poet 88

4 The expansion of Orphic themes 95

i Chagall: Paris Through the Window (1913-14) 95

ii De Chirico: The Song of Love 123

iii Excursus: Apollinaire, Picabia and Culture physique 124

iv The Song of Love: conclusion 127

5 Chagall's Hommage a Apollinaire (1913-14) 129

i The chronology and circumstances of production 129

ii A homage to Apollinaire and an emblem of Orphic international avant-gardism 132

6 De Chirico's homage to Apollinaire 141

i Le portrait premonitoire de Guillaume Apollinaire (1914) 141

ii Postscript: Evangelical Still-Life (1917) 144

7 Post mortem: Apollinaire's legacy 173

Appendix I Kupka, Orphism and Apollinaire 181

Appendix II Apollinaire and 'La Section d'Or' 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-240) and index.

ISBN:

1840146052

OCLC:

47142108