
The Shadow of the Avant-garde
Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-3-7757-4059-3 (ISBN)
Description
Difficult to categorize and branded as "naïve"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri Rousseau, André Bauchant, Morris Hirshfield, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis, or Séraphine Louis are far too often isolated in the light of an exotic primitivism, so to speak. Instead, the publication and the exhibition at the Museum Folkwang, since its founding the first museum worldwide devoted to modern art, surround their energy-laden works with key works from the modern era. It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the established artists of today with their paintings and sculptures, and often sponsored them. From this perspective, even contemporaries such as Miroslav Tichý make a contribution to the development of art and are no longer merely its antagonists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
254 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder, 0 Abbildungen
ca. 220 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 27.8 cm
Width: 20.2 cm
Thickness: 2.6 cm
Weight
1126 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-4059-3 (9783775740593)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Robert Storr is among the most esteemed curators and critical writers on art today.
He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale School of
Art in 2006 and is also Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale School of
Art in 2006 and is also Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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