2023 Janet Sobel.Wartime,Monograph of artist,Naive art,album
“In the 1940s, against the backdrop of the modernists’ interest in the subconscious, original self-taught art was in trend. On this wave, Sobel experienced a rapid rise to fame in the New York art environment. Almost immediately it became clear that in the person of Janet Sobel, the art world collided not with another curiosity, but with a completely unique and high-quality creative phenomenon. Through the efforts of her son, the artist met the outstanding philosopher, psychologist and teacher John Dewey, gallerist and collector Sidney Janis, artist Marc Chagall. Over the past decades, Sobel’s name began to gradually return to the field of view of specialists, however, only today, more than fifty years after the death of the artist, is the time for a full-scale rethinking of her legacy in the context of revising the patriarchal version of the history of American modernism and art of the 20th century. in general”. Format: 205 x 260 mm