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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ireson, Nancy

Titel

Le Douanier as medium? Henri Rousseau and spiritualism

Ist Teil von

• Apollo (London. 1925), 2004-06, Vol.159 (508), p.80-87

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Discusses the influence of spiritualism on the French painter Henri Rousseau. The author details critical responses to Rousseau's spiritualism, notes how considerations of social class inform many contemporary reactions to his spiritualism, and examines the influence of figures such as Mercereau and Le Fauconnier on Rousseau's thought. She relates Rousseau's practices to ideas of the primitive, explores the folk qualities of paintings such as L'Enfant à Poupée (1905; col. illus.), and situates Rousseau's art within Girod's reading of his spiritualism.