Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
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?
- Year: 2018
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Studio: Lona media, WDR/Arte, ARTE
- Keyword: 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
- Director: Jörg Jung
- Cast: Edda Fischer, Gregor Höppner, Philipp Schepmann, Simon T. Roden, Pablo Picasso, Papa Ibra Tall