Cobra : The Last Avant-Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century by Willemijn Stokvis (2004, Trade Paperback)

Ashgate Publishing Company

0853318980

9780853318989

30250176

Cobra : the Last Avantgarde Movement of the Twentieth Century

352 Pages

English

2004

History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / General

Yes

Art

Willemijn Stokvis

Trade Paperback

0.9 in

30.7 Oz

8.1 in

6.7 in

Trade

2003-113471

21

709/.04

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Prelude; The Cobra Movement; The Cobra Language; Cobra and the work of its members; Conclusion; Overview of important dates; Bibliography; Index.

The radical post-war Cobra group of artists and poets (1948-51) took their name from the three cities where the main participants lived: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The group included some of the most important European artists of the second half of the twentieth century - Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pedersen - who collaborated in a search for a universal artistic language. Inspired by the creative impulse which they found in the art of so-called primitives, of children and of the insane, the group made idealistic, Marxist-inspired plans for a future in which a new folk art would be created.Cobra is the first detailed survey of the movement in English and provides a fascinating picture of this vibrant group of artists. Willemijn Stokvis reveals the different impact which Cobra had in Belgium, Denmark and Holland, and places the movement within the wider context of twentieth-century art, ..., The radical Cobra group of artists and poets (1948-51) which included Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel, searched for a universal artistic language, inspired by the creative impulse they found in the art of so-called primitives, of children and of the insane. This book examines their contribution to twentieth-century art.

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