Henri Rousseau
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780300090550
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; c 1800 to c 1900; Individual Painters - 19th Century; Art & Art Instruction; Art; European; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; General; 1844-1910; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Rousseau, Henri,
Description: "Henri Rousseau, called 'Le Douanier' because of his early career with the French customs service, is one of the most important, fascinating and least studied of late nineteenth-century artists. His determined and unapologetic primitivism distanced his work from most of his contemporaries, but he was widely admired by Picasso, Apollinaire and Kandinsky, and is now seen as one of the pioneers of the modern movement.

This book offers a detailed portrait of Rousseau's life and career as well as sensitive interpretations of his unusual, individualistic art."--BOOK JACKET.