First published 2022
Gertrude Stein creates ten prose portraits of the artists and writers who shaped her world between 1913 and 1929. She captures Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Virgil Thomson, and six others through her experimental writing style. Each portrait appears alongside original lithographs by Picasso, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Kristians Tonny. The words and images work together to reveal both humor and sincerity in Stein's relationships with her subjects. First published in 1930 in just one hundred copies, this artist book demonstrates how visual and written portraiture can illuminate the connections between creator and subject. Lynne Tillman provides a new introduction to this collaboration that made modern art history in Paris.
Genres: art, 20th-century, biography-memoir, art-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: collaboration, experimental-writing
Setting: Paris
Period: 1913-1929, 1930
60 pages · Paperback · David Zwirner Books