The Shadow of the Avant-garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters - Brossura

Knig, Kasper

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3775740597 ISBN 13: 9783775740593

Casa editrice: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg, 2015

Riassunto

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, André Bauchant, Morris Hirshfield, Bill Traylor, Alfred Wallis and Séraphine 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 Honoré 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 Tich? make a contribution to the development of art and are no longer merely its antagonists.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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.

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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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3775740597
• ISBN 13: 9783775740593
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Redattore: Wolf Falk
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile