Die Picasso-Bande der Pariser Avantgarde

In an entertaining manner, Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch approaches her protagonists, who set out to reinvent art. The painters and poets Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire formed a small, closed group of young artists at the beginning of the 20th century. This self-styled clique despised all conventional painting and poetry as an aristocratic cabal and left no doubt that they would reinvent art. Later, Jean Cocteau joined them, who was in love with Picasso and wanted to create a ballet with him and the musician Eric Satie. In her popular science book, Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch succeeds in illustrating the artistic and cultural currents in Paris at the dawn of the 20th century. Inserted contemporary quotes bring the "Picasso gang" back to life.