Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

November 16th, 20180h 53min

Documentary, TV Movie
55%

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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