Rousseau: The Dream: MoMA One on One Series - Softcover

Temkin, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870708309 ISBN 13: 9780870708305

Verlag: Museum of Modern Art, 2012

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A singular figure in the avant garde of the early twentieth century, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of 49. Although he never left Paris, Rousseau painted a number of jungle scenes, drawing on images of the exotic as presented to the urban dweller through popular literature, colonial expositions and the Paris zoo. "The Dream" (1910) is the artist's last major work. Exhibited at the 1910 Salon des Independants a few months before Rousseau's death in September of that year, it exemplifies that surreal juxtaposition of the exotic and the domestic, realized with an uncanny exactitude, for which Rousseau is so beloved today. The poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire praised the work, countering his detractors: "The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable. I believe nobody will laugh this year." In this volume, Ann Temkin, the Museum's Marie-Jos�e and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, guides readers in deciphering this mysterious painting, illuminating its significance and placing it within the development of modern art and in Rousseau's own life.

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Ann Temkin is The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Each volume in this new series offers an in-depth exploration of one major work in MoMA’s collection. Through a lively illustrated essay by a MoMA curator that examines the work in detail, the publication delves into aspects of the artist’s oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and arthistorical context.

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• Verlag: Museum of Modern Art
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870708309
• ISBN 13: 9780870708305
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
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