Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the
early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume
Apollinaire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and
traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and
Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are
complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures
important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and
Santiago Rusinol. The young Picasso and his contemporaries
experienced the challenges of modernity as an attempt to reflect on
the lost relation to authority. For the symbolists, art held
authority by revealing something compelling something to which
audiences must respond lest they lose claim to their own moral
authority. Instead of the total transformation of the reader or
viewer that symbolist creators envision, Picasso and Apollinaire
imagine a divided self, responding only partially or ambivalently
to the work of art's call. Navigating these problems of symbolist
art and poetry entails considering the nature of the work of art
and of one's response to it, the modern subject's place in history,
and the relevance of historical truth to our methodological choices
in the present.
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