Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Nov 16, 2018

0h 53m

★ 5.5

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?

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Lona media

ARTE

WDR

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Edda Fischer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Gregor Höppner

Self - Narrator (voice)

Philipp Schepmann

Self - Narrator (voice)

Simon T. Roden

Self (archive footage)

Pablo Picasso

Self (archive footage)

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