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Guillaume Apollinaire Peintures de Léopold Survage; Dessins et aquarelles d’Irène Lagut (Paintings by Léopold Survage; Drawings and Watercolors by Irène Lagut) 1917

Guillaume Apollinaire was a profoundly influential art critic, theoretician, and advocate of the early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. He was also one of the first practitioners of modern visual poetry. In 1917, Apollinaire organized an exhibition of works by Léopold Survage and Irène Lagut. This exhibition catalogue includes two introductory statements and 13 visual prose poems, which expound on the artists’ works while taking the form of horses, clocks, flowers, and other pictorial motifs. The result combines Apollinaire’s concept of “critical poetry” with his earlier experiments merging word and image, which he had explored since 1913 in poems subsequently published in the compilation Calligrammes (1918). This rare edition of the catalogue is among only ten copies the author tinted by hand with watercolor. Apollinaire is also considered one of the forefathers of the Surrealist movement, having been a major influence on the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the Surrealist group, such as Louis Aragon, André Breton, and Philippe Soupault. 
Identification
Title
Peintures de Léopold Survage; Dessins et aquarelles d’Irène Lagut (Paintings by Léopold Survage; Drawings and Watercolors by Irène Lagut)
Production Date
1917
Object Number
2016.503
Credit Line
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, acquired from The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner
Copyright
© Guillaume Apollinaire
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Physical Qualities
Medium
Softcover exhibition catalogue with 12 lithograph pages tinted with watercolor
Dimensions
11 x 7 1/2 x 1/4 inches
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire — b.1880, Rome; d. 1918, Paris
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