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Pablo Picasso, the inventor of cubism, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the inventor of surrealism, met in 1905, forged a close friendship, and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaire's death in 1918 did not diminish his importance to Picasso, who continued to draw on the poet for inspiration until his own death in 1973, as reflected in such works as Picasso's portraits of Apollinaire, his drawings for Apollinaire's Bestiary poems, and the self-portrait he drew on the night the poet died. Picasso and Apollinaire is a lively examination of the creative interaction between the artist and the poet. Peter Read delves into unpublished archives for documents that throw new light on the cultural and political contexts against which their works were produced.

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Impressively researched study. --Times Literary Supplement (Tls) A pleasure to read... Exacting and witty [it] is multi-faceted, penetrating and truthful as a Cubist painting. --Burlington Magazine Read delves into unpublished archive documents to examine the creative interaction and fraternal complicity between the two men. --Times Higher Education

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Peter Read is Professor of French at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. He is the translator of Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters (UC Press) and the author of Picasso et Apollinaire: Les metamorphoses de la memoire, which he has extensively revised for this English-language edtion.

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