Monograph THE CROATIAN MUSEUM OF NAÏVE ART

27.11.2008

This book clarifies the phenomenon of naïve art, shows how and why it came to appear in Croatia in the 1930s, discusses the work of Ivan Generalić, Virius and Smajić, and considers the appearance of the independent artists, Feješ, Skurjeni and Rabuzin. It goes on to examine the dispersal of the Hlebine School and the painting of Gaži, Večenaj and Kovačić, and tells of the situation in the world during the sixties and at the beginning of the seventies, focusing on the work from the holding of the Croatian Museum of NaïveArt there is also discussion of the works of Mraz, Torti, Buktenica, Stolnik, Mehkek and Jurak. Vladimir Crnković: THE CROATIAN MUSEUM OF NAÏVE ART (2000) 15.5x24 cm, 240 pp, 117 color reproductions Price: 100 kuna + p. and p.