Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)
• November 16th, 2018 • 0h 53min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?
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