Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918

A volume in The Documents Of 20th-Century Art; being a collection of writings by Apollinaire, whose ideas on art played a seminal role in the development of c20th art; Apollinaire was among the first to appreciate Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Rousseau, one of the first supporters of Cubism, wrote one of the Futurist Manifestos, and invented the word ‘Surrealist’; all this and more is represented in this comprehensive collection, translated by Susan Suleiman, edited by Leroy C. Breunig; red cloth boards, gilt titling to spine, and T&H dolphin motif embossed to front board; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, and with one or two short closed tears, o.w. Very Good.