Apollinaire on the edge : modern art, popular culture, and the avant-garde / Willard Bohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohn, Willard, 1939-

Series:

Faux titre ; 355.

Faux titre ; 355

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern.

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918--Criticism and interpretation.

Apollinaire, Guillaume.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The title of the present study refers to the fact that Apollinaire consistently worked at the cutting edge of modern aesthetics. The volume seeks to rehabilitate four experimental genres in particular that have received relatively little attention. The first chapter examines a charming artist’s book entitled The Bestiary , which features illustrations by Raoul Dufy. The second is concerned with a group of poems that celebrate ordinary, everyday life. The next chapter considers Apollinaire’s little-known debt to children’s rhymes. The final chapter discusses an avant-garde drama that was destined to play a key role in the evolution of modern French theater. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in avant-garde aesthetics. It will appeal not only to scholars of twentieth-century poetry but also to devotees of modern art and modern theater.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contemplating The Bestiary

Apollinaire and the Whatnots

Apollinaire and Children’s Rhymes

The Mammaries of Tiresias

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-79302-0

9786612793028

90-420-3109-3

OCLC:

670411598

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031098 DOI