Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?

Producers	ARTE, Lona Media, WDR/Arte
Original title	Expedition Moderne: Auf den Spuren unentdeckter Kunst
Directors	Jörg Jung
Writers	Jörg Jung

Cast

Edda Fischer

as Herself - Narrator (voice)

Gregor Höppner

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Philipp Schepmann

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Simon T. Roden

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Pablo Picasso

as Himself (archive footage)

Papa Ibra Tall

as Himself (archive footage)