The Cubist Painters

"[Read's] text follows Apollinaire's French more closely than Abel's and in so doing restores to "The Cubist Painters "a poetic dimension sometimes suppressed in Abel's version. This is the principal virtue of the new translation, yet this virtue is not simply one of fidelity, for Read's translation also serves to clarify the position of Apollinaire's 1913 text in relation to other early accounts of Cubism. Read provides detailed commentaries on each section of the book, and here he effectively links Apollinaire's criticism to his poetry."--Simon Dell, University of East Anglia