Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

53m
DocumentaryTV Movie
5.5

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?

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)

Crew

Jörg Jung
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Oliver Held
Editor
Julia Zinke
Producer

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