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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, ...
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About the Author
Willemijn Stokvis is the leading authority on the Cobra movement. She is the author of numerous books, exhibition catalogues and articles on Cobra, many of which have appeared in languages other than her native Dutch. Currently a freelance art historian, she was until 1999 a Lecturer in the History of Modern Art at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- PublisherLund Humphries Pub Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0853318980
- ISBN 13 9780853318989
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages349
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