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Apollinaire

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A·pol·li·naire  (-pl-nâr), Guillaume Originally Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky. 1880-1918.
French poet and leading figure in avant-garde literary and artistic circles.

Apollinaire (French) [apɔlinɛr]
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(Biographies / Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) M, French, WRITING: poet, WRITING: novelist, THEATRE: dramatist) Guillaume (gijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880-1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and
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Noun1.ApollinaireApollinaire - French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)


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As early as 1909, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in favor of these expansions, and later, as Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux made a similar argument.
In 1908, two years before Rousseau's death, Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire threw a banquet in his honor, attended by a who's who of the Parisian avant-garde.
The first Nouveau Realiste exhibition took place in 1960 at Milan's Galleria Apollinaire, but it was 1961's "A 40[degrees] au-dessus de dada" (40[degrees] Above Dada) at Galerie J that officially introduced what Restany would call the "collective singularity of the group" to the Parisian art world.
 
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