Henri Rousseau
Subtitle: Dreams of the Jungle (Pegasus Library Paperback)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9783791324098
Subjects: Art styles: c 1900 to First World War; Individual artists; Naive art; Painting & paintings; Primitivism in art; France; Individual Painters - 19th Century; Rousseau, Henri Julien Fâelix,; Art & Art Instruction; Jungles in art; Art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); European; Individual Artist; Rousseau, Henri Julien Felix,; 1844-1910; Criticism and interpretation
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."--Amazon.