Cock and Harlequin: Notes Concerning Music by Jean Cocteau (1921) (Picasso)

Cocteau’s important manifesto on modern music and the arts. Written in the milieu of Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, and the emerging Group of Six, the work presses for a new French musical aesthetic based on clarity, simplicity, and modern life. With a portrait of the author and two monograms by Pablo Picasso. Condition: Covers worn and age tanned to edges. Spine cracked with some chipping. Binding a little fragile. Some light spotting to rear endpaper.