Article: Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait. Ed. by MICHEL DECAUDIN. Paris: Revue des Lettres Modernes/Minard. 2001. 273 pp. ISBN 2-256-91026-1.

Fourteen papers (plus a concluding tribute from Georges-Emmanuel Clancier), delivered at the 1999 Stavelot conference, focus on Apollinaire as a theoretician of portraiture, as a producer of poetic and fictional portraits and self-portraits, and as the inspiration for visual and literary portraits by his contemporaries. The book opens with a trio of studies of Apollinaire as a subject for his painter friends. Mario Richter views de Chirico's incorporation and destabilization of the classical Orphic trope in his ...

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