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Chapters: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Jean-Marie Guyau, Manuela Montebrun, Louis Noguères, Gérard Lelièvre, Yann Clairay, André Bellessort. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, Mayenne in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. In 1868 he married Clémence Boitard, his landlord's 15 year-old daughter, with whom he had 9 children (only 7 survived). In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried Josephine Noury in 1898. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 in 1893 he retired from his job to work on his art full time. Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Félix Auguste-Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=572862 ... Read more

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This book is the resulte of gathering together all available documents and other information (and scrutinizing it carefully) on Rousseau. Many facts previously overlooked have come to the surface, casting almost wholly new light on Rousseau's career. This book is a first attempt to present Rousseau's art in historical perspective. ... Read more

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Title: "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris".(Exhibition note)
Author: Joseph Phelan
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25Issue: 1Page: 98(2)

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Chapters: Naïve Painters, Henry Darger, L. S. Lowry, Antonia Gerstacker, Sergey Zagraevsky, Edward Hicks, Henri Rousseau, Howard Finster, Katya Medvedeva, Bob Justin, Séraphine Louis, Niko Pirosmanashvili, Bryan Pearce, Charles Henry Granger, Alfred Wallis, Frances Lennon, Adolf Dietrich, Ferreira Louis Marius, Nikifor, Fred Yates, Ralph Cahoon, Visionary, Horace Pippin, Radi Nedelchev, Eolo Pons, Markey Robinson, Robert-Émile Fortin, Oluf Braren, Camille Bombois, Bracha Turner, Wilhelm Uhde, Konstantin Rodko, Denys Corbet, Miguel García Vivancos, Chaïbia Talal, Max Fourny, James Lawrence Isherwood, Derold Page, Jean-Yves Couliou, André Bauchant, Michel Delacroix, Marian Ulc, Tamas Galambos, Nina Barka, Antonio Ligabue, Janko Brašić. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story. Darger's work has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art. Darger was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. While he is believed to have been born on April 12, the exact date is debated. A record exists of his U.S. draft registration card, filled out on June 2, 1917 during the First World War, which lists his birth date as April 17, 1892. Cook County records show that he was born at his home, located at 350 W. 24th Street in Chicago. When he was four years old, his mother, Rosa Full...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=466610 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Environnement Visionnaire, Henri Rousseau, Aristide Caillaud, Rochers Sculptés de Rothéneuf, Jean Schubnel, Rock Garden, Radi Nedelchev, Musée International D'art Naïf, Camille Bombois, Michel Loeb, Paul-Emile Pajot, Bogosav Živković, Edward Hicks, Henri Trouillard, Médard Aribot, Sala Keoku, Chaïbia Talal, Abraham Ángel, Alphonse Benquet, Anselme Boix-Vives, Niko Pirosmani, Céleste Pedoux, Denys Corbet, Jardin de La Luna Rossa, Musée D'art Naïf Max Fourny - Halle Saint Pierre, Justo Gallego, Jean-Étienne Delacroix, La Charmeuse de Serpents, Bernard Vercruyce, Eva Lallemant, Nikifor Krynicki, Anatole Jakovsky, Ivan Rabuzin, Simone le Moigne. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Les Environnements visionnaires sont des créations de plein air élaborées par des autodidactes ou des marginaux (parfois dénommés « Habitants-Paysagistes ») Les Environnements peuvent être des constructions à part entière, architectures naïves, imaginaires et délirantes, questionnant les fondements et l'esthétique mêmes de l'architecture officielle. Mais ils sont souvent plus proches d'œuvres artistiques monumentales, comprenant l'agrémentation / décoration entière de l'habitation du créateur ou de vastes ensembles de sculptures disposées en plein air. Ils rejoignent par là une forme brute de Land art et sont souvent un véritable art de la récupération et du recyclage. Le caractère spontané, populaire, obscur de ces créations les relie naturellement à l'Art brut, l'Art naïf et Outsider. Le plus célèbre, emblématique et ancien étant Le Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval à Hauterives. Mais, à la différence de ce dernier, classé Monument Historique en 1969, beaucoup se détériorent et disparaissent à la mort de leurs auteurs. Le phé...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more