Henri Rousseau: Dreams of the Jungle

Type

Book

Authors

Werner Schmalenbach

ISBN 10

3791324098

ISBN 13

9783791324098

Tags

Individual Artists, Criticism, History

Description

Rousseau's series of jungle paintings was and still continues to be the subject of controversy. This book answers many of the questions surrounding Rousseau's importance as an artist and examines his paintings in a wider art-historical context. As a self-taught artist who started painting at the age of 40 and worked in an unorthodox, naive style, Rousseau had to struggle to overcome the derision of his contemporaries. That Rousseau succeeded in silencing his critics, winning wide admiration, including that of Picasso, the Surrealists and Wasily Kandinsky, owes much to the jungle paintings. - from Amzon

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