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Matisse Picasso, Creating And Destroying Histories

A Fascination with 'Otherness'

Niru Ratnam, A Fascination with 'Otherness'  Both Picasso and Matisse drew upon African art early on in their careers, arguably in order to break, or continue in their break from, conventional western visual languages. Niru Ratnam examines the idea of the cultural 'other', how it has been constructed and how it persists in contemporary art.