Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall |
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| Author:
| D'Alessandro, Stephanie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-935573-19-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago, David & Alfred Smart Museum
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, psychological intensity, and spatial distortion characteristic of the German tradition. He later became concerned with a spiritualism rooted in a universal humanism and communion with nature. Documenting the Diaspora of the Jews...
More DescriptionThe first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224.
Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, psychological intensity, and spatial distortion characteristic of the German tradition. He later became concerned with a spiritualism rooted in a universal humanism and communion with nature. Documenting the Diaspora of the Jews and embodying modern notions of "exoticism" and "primitivism" in modern art, Segall's work presents a range of issues significant to today's global culture and politics.