Read, P: Picasso and Apollinaire The Persistance of Memory

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 Peter Read delves into unpublished archives for documents that throw new light on the cultural and political contexts against which their works were produced.