Colin Rhodes Books
Primitivism and Modern Art
By Colin Rhodes
A fascination with the "primitive" lies at the heart of some of the most influential developments in Western art produced between 1890 and 1950 - a time that witnessed both the "heroic" period of m...
Read MoreOutsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives
By Colin Rhodes
"Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern western art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, crimina...
Read MoreBenjamin s Blind Spot
By Colin Rhodes, Martin Gantman, Vance Bell, David Brottman, Erich Hertz, Gerhard Richter, Marquard Smith, Carsten Strathausen, Rajeev Patke, David Gross, Petra Kuppers
"The German cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is widely considered one of the most original analytical thinkers of the 20th century. His 1936 essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechani...
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