| Niko Pirosmani Contributor(s): Pirosmani, Niko, Curiger, Bice (Editor), Schröder, Klaus Albrecht (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3775744754 ISBN-13: 9783775744751 Publisher: Hatje Cantz OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 9.6" W x 11.9" (3.30 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Georgian "naive" painter Niko Pirosmani, sometimes known as Nikala (1862-1918), is long overdue for rediscovery. Today, this autodidact, who painted his pictures of animals and people for inns and pubs, is admired as a leading representative of "naive" art, but the story of his original critical reception is remarkable. Hardly known outside of Georgia these days, his work was nevertheless displayed alongside works by Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall in the legendary 1913 exhibition Misch n (Target) in Moscow, where he was known as the "Rousseau of the East." Pirosmani devised a unique visual vocabulary--black background, elementary colors of red, blue, yellow, green and white--to create his paintings of animals and portraits of merchants, shopkeepers, workmen and noblemen. This book, published for the Albertina's major Pirosmani retrospective, examines his paintings in the context of art history. |