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• Hardcover: 104 pages
• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd; 1st Edition edition (22 Feb 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714819557
• ISBN-13: 978-0714819556
• Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

the leopard with the harmless kid
  laid down
      and not one savage beast
was seen to frown

from back cover
edward hicks: william penn negotiating the indians

DESCRIPTION:
Explores the roots, evolution, and development of modern naive painting and views the work of representative artists including Boyadjian, Alexandrine Raffler, Rabuzin, Rousseau, and Haddelsey.

FROM THE PUBLISHER (FROM BACK COVER):
104 pages. 72 colour plates. 60 artists

Naive Painting represents a popular movement against the conventions of formalized art. It developed extensively through the well-known Yugoslav School into a worldwide movement.Anatole Jakovsky, one of the Scott discoverers of these 'Sunday Painters', describes the essential aspects of this special art form.

PART OF PAGE 5:
If we want to approach the subject of naive painting with any degree of honesty, then we shall have to concede that nothing of what we know about the genesis of art in terms of the origins of an artistic movement can be likened to the adventure of naive painting. For this reason the present and rather recent popularity of naive painting appers to puzzle and confuse people, dividing the world into supporters and detractors. Very little of what has been written on the subject makes much sense; in fact, quite the reverse. Ill-judged comparisons of naive painting with drawings done by children or the mentally ill, with cave drawings, votive pictures, in short, with most forms of folk art, only contribute towards sustaining this confusion.

CONDITION:
As per scans below. Cover has browning consistent with age. Corners have wear