Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

5.5(2 votes)
2018
0h 53m
Documentary
TV Movie

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?

Production

Lona media, WDR/Arte, ARTE

Cast

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)

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