| The Shadow of the Avant-Garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters Contributor(s): Wolf, Falk (Editor), Wolf, Falk (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), König, Kasper (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 3775740597 ISBN-13: 9783775740593 Publisher: Hatje Cantz OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | Folk & Outsider Art |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8" W x 10.8" (2.80 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive," the oeuvres of the great autodidact painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continue to pose problems for art history. Artists such as Henri Rousseau, Andr Bauchant, Morris Hirshfield, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis and S raphine Louis are far too often isolated in the light of an exotic primitivism, so to speak. Instead, this publication and the exhibition it accompanies at the Museum Folkwang contextualize their powerful creations with key works from the modern era, by artists such as Honor Daumier, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and, more recently, Blinky Palermo and Mike Kelley. It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the canonical modernist artists with their paintings and sculptures, who often publically supported them. From this perspective, even contemporaries such as Miroslav Tichˇ make a contribution to the development of art and are no longer merely its antagonists. |
