Rousseau

(Basic Art series). What were once dismissed as just flat, icon-like figures, simple landscapes, and later, exotic jungle scenes, Rousseau's "naive compositions" (the work of a mere employee of the Paris customs bureau), are, today, seen as a "fascinating mixture of primitive idyll and flight from civilization," produced by an uncompromising modernist who evinced intuitive principles of design and composition. Biographical Notes, Selected Bibliography. Color/b&w illus. 96p.