Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

  • Rated 5.5 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2018
  • 53m
  • Documentary
  • TV 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?

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Director
Jörg Jung
Starring
Edda Fischer, Gregor Höppner, Philipp Schepmann, Simon T. Roden

Cast

  • Edda Fischer

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Gregor Höppner

    Gregor Höppner

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Philipp Schepmann

    Philipp Schepmann

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Simon T. Roden

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Pablo Picasso

    Pablo Picasso

    Self (archive footage)

  • Papa Ibra Tall

    Self (archive footage)

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