Cobra - Willemijn Stokvis
KORTE INHOUD
"Immediately after the Second World War, artists from various Northern European countries founded the Cobra movement (1948-51). This group of artists - which included the Danes Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pedersen, the Dutchmen Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille, and the Belgian Pierre Alechinksy - cherished the ideal of making the way free for a new people's art for the new society to come. Their ideals were expressed in several publications, exhibitions and joint works. Seeking the source of creativity present in all human beings (as they believed), these painters were inspired by the forms of expression of primitive and naive artists, as well as those of children and the mentally disturbed. From 1951 a number of these artists pursued their ideals (though in modified form) in other movements. By the mid-fifties several former members of the Cobra group were to receive international acclaim for their expressionist works, brimming with vitality, in which mysterious imaginary creatures shelter within the stir...
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1991Uitgever: Ediciones Poligrafa128 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8434305119ISBN-13: 9788434305113Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1987, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Willemijn Stokvis] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Ediciones Poligrafa] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: Cobra]
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Original boards, dust jacket, 200 illustrations (123 in colour), 4to. [Auteur: Stokvis, Willemijn] [Pagina's: 128] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Barcelona : Ediciones Polígrafa] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: Cobra: An International Movement in Art After the Second World War]
