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Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Nov 16, 2018 53m
5.5
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Synopsis

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?

Title Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
Companies Lona media, WDR/Arte, ARTE
Countries Germany
Keywords australia, africa, asia, street art, curatorship, art school, art gallery, modern art, contemporary art, art history, sculptor, art museum, african mythology, painter as artist, aboriginal mythology, tibetan mythology
Edda Fischer

Edda Fischer

Self - Narrator (voice)
Gregor Höppner

Gregor Höppner

Self - Narrator (voice)
Philipp Schepmann

Philipp Schepmann

Self - Narrator (voice)
Simon T. Roden

Simon T. Roden

Self - Narrator (voice)
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Self (archive footage)
Papa Ibra Tall

Papa Ibra Tall

Self (archive footage)