Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
2018•53m•5.5•Released
DocumentaryTV 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?
Director
Jörg Jung
Writer
Jörg Jung
Languages
German
Studio
Lona media
Cast
Edda Fischer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gregor Höppner
Self - Narrator (voice)
Philipp Schepmann
Self - Narrator (voice)
Simon T. Roden
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pablo Picasso
Self (archive footage)
Papa Ibra Tall
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Lona media
Company
ARTE
Company
WDR
Producer
Julia Zinke
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