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Offers a look at the unusual artwork of the enigmatic Henri Rousseau, offering a study of the artist's life, his unique style of painting, the themes of his work, and his influence on modern art, and includes color reproductions.
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Henri Rousseau is at once one of the most popular and one of the most enigmatic artists of the modern era. 'Interpreting' his work presented no less of a problem to his contemporaries than it does to us today. Was he, as some have made out, a naive, primitive painter, working in isolation from the developments around him? Or was he rather, as others maintain, a starting point for and an inspiration to modern art? And what was it about his works that so interested Picasso and the Surrealists?Richly illustrated with full-colour reproductions of the paintings and contemporary photographs, Interpreting Rousseau provides the perfect introduction to the artist's work, going beyond the myths to reveal the truth about this fascinating figure.
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