Correspondance Apollinaire et les peintres (1903-1918)

我和Gallimard签了一份合同，日期是2006年11月20日，我要完成纪尧姆·阿波利奈尔和他接触过的许多艺术家之间的大量通信。这是我和我在巴黎的同事劳伦斯·坎帕的合资项目。我们在合同中被共同指定为“l’auteur”，从项目开始就在一起工作。阿波利奈尔（1880-1918）是法国现代主义文学的奠基人。他是诗人、小说家、剧作家，在第一次世界大战期间是一名步兵军官，也是一位著名的多产作家。在他的一生中，他最为人所知的身份是艺术评论家，在国家媒体上发表文章。他经营着自己的战前艺术杂志《巴黎的社会》，并于1913年出版了他的书《立体派画家》（2004年，我与加州大学出版社出版了翻译版和评论版）。这个研究项目汇集了我们所能找到的阿波利奈尔和艺术家之间的所有通信。这本书的记录核心是阿波利奈尔从800多名不同的记者那里收到的信件，这些信件通过阿波利奈尔的遗产在几年前进入了法国国家博物馆。当这些材料还在私人手中时，在编目之前和编目期间，我可以接触到它们的部分内容。我们现在有了完全的权限。所谓艺术家，我们指的是画家、雕塑家、雕刻家、插画家、平面和海报艺术家。这些人的名单肯定会包括布拉克、夏加尔、基里科、德劳内、德朗、迪里克、杜菲、弗里兹、格列泽斯、冈查洛娃、格里斯、康定斯基、吉林斯、拉弗雷奈、拉里奥诺夫、劳伦森、莱姆杰、马蒂斯、皮卡比亚、普维斯·德查瓦内、杜阿尼尔·卢梭、西涅克、苏尔维奇、弗拉明克、扎德金……完整的名单包含了100多位艺术家的名字，还有700多页的通信，各种形式的卡片和信件。几乎所有这些文件都是完全未发表的。毕加索是唯一被排除在外的重要人物，因为他与阿波利奈尔的通信已经被伽里玛出版了。在我们的BNF语料库中，我们将添加来自其他收藏和档案以及各种分散出版物的信件。阿波利奈尔的许多信件都没有保存下来。但是，在可能的情况下，我们将提供对话双方。这些字母将按照艺术家的时间顺序进行分组。《引言》将把阿波利奈尔和艺术家之间的专业和个人联系置于历史和文化背景中。所提出的观点将包括这个年轻艺术家社区的世界性多样性；从八卦和争吵，到美学理论，再到谋生的日常事务，这些信件所涉及的主题范围很广。例如，格里斯首先请求阿波利奈尔帮助出售他的报纸插图。马蒂斯和阿波利奈尔的关系在这里起伏不定，改变了希拉里·斯普林传记中得出的结论。第一次世界大战的散居造成了通信的增加；这里展出的一些战时信件非常感人，现在具有非凡的文献价值。布拉克,Derain)。因此，这本书将处于艺术史、历史和文学的结合部。每封信都会附有必要的注释，特别是关于姓名、事件和作品的注释，最后还会有姓名索引。这些信件，尤其是阿波利奈尔收到的信件，将为我们对这位诗人和艺术家的认识和理解增添许多新的细节。这本书将重新构建一个围绕阿波利奈尔的广泛而迷人的艺术家星座，包括本世纪最亮的明星，但也有许多次要的人物。它将提供新的、揭示性的、直接的、第一手的途径，让人们了解英雄现代主义时代巴黎熙攘的文化生活。

I have a contract with Gallimard, dated 20 November 2006, to complete a major volume of correspondence between Guillaume Apollinaire and the many artists with whom he was in contact. This is a joint venture with a colleague in Paris, Laurence Campa. We are jointly designated as 'l'Auteur' in the contract and have worked together on the project from its inception.Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a founding figure of French literary modernism. He was a poet, novelist, playwright, an infantry officer during the Great War and a famously prolific letter writer. During his lifetime, he was best known as an art critic, writing in the national press. He ran his own pre-war arts magazine, 'Les Soirées de Paris', and published in 1913 his book, 'The Cubist Painters' (of which I published a translation and critical edition, with University of California Press, in 2004). This research project brings together all the correspondence we can locate between Apollinaire and artists. The documentary core of this book is the correspondence received by Apollinaire, from over 800 diverse correspondents, which, via the Apollinaire estate, entered the BNF a few years ago. I had access to parts of this material when it was in private hands, then before and during cataloguing. We now have complete access.By artists, we mean painters, sculptors, engravers, illustrators, graphic and poster artists. The list of those who will definitely feature includes Braque, Chagall, Chirico, Delaunay, Derain, Diriks, Dufy, Friesz, Gleizes, Gontcharova, Gris, Kandinsky, Kisling, La Fresnaye, Larionov, Laurencin, Léger, Matisse, Picabia, Puvis de Chavannes, Douanier Rousseau, Signac, Survage, Vlaminck, Zadkine... The complete list contains over one hundred artists' names, with over 700 pages of correspondence, on cards and letters of every format. Almost all these documents are entirely unpublished. Picasso is the one major figure excluded, because his correspondence with Apollinaire has already been published, by Gallimard.To our BNF corpus, we will add letters from other collections and archives, and from various dispersed publications. Many of the letters Apollinaire sent have not survived. We will however provide, where possible, both sides of the dialogue. The letters will be grouped according to artist, in chronological order. The Introduction, co-written, will place the professional and personal contacts between Apollinaire and the artists in historical and cultural context. Points made will include the cosmopolitan diversity of this community of young artists; the range of subject matter treated in the letters, from gossip and quarrels, to aesthetic theorising, to the everyday concerns of making a living. Gris, for example, first requests Apollinaire's help in selling his newspaper illustrations. The Matisse-Apollinaire relationship here fluctuates in ways that modify conclusions drawn in Hilary Spurling's biography. The diaspora of the Great War caused an increase in correspondence; some of the wartime letters presented here are very moving and now have extraordinary documentary value (eg. Braque, Derain). The book will therefore sit at the juncture of art history, history and literature. Each letter will be accompanied by essential notes, particularly on names, events and works, and there will be a final index of names. The letters, particularly those received by Apollinaire, will add much new detail to our knowledge and understanding of the poet and the artists. The book will reconstitute an extensive and fascinating constellation of artists around Apollinaire, including the brightest stars of the century but also many lesser figures. It will provide new, revealing, direct and first-hand access to the jostling cultural life of Paris in the age of heroic modernism.