For much of the Twentieth Century, artistic primitivism was central to the definition and history of modernism in art. Everyone has heard of Picasso and his passion for African sculpture, exemplified ...

The program “Confronting Masks: `Primitivism and the African-American Artist” will be held Saturday at the Terra Museum of American Art. Kymberly Pinder, associate professor at the School of the Art ...

Includes: African Sculpture / Carl Einstein, a translation of his Negerplastik, 1915. Summary Publisher's description: This book is the first to bring together texts documenting the encounter between ...

Stanford University Press, 272 pp. According to the Russian־Jewish art critic, Abram Efros (1888-1954), modern Jewish art needs to embody two principles: European modernism and Jewish folk art. In his ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information Founded in 1911, the College Art Association... Promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of ...

The notorious exhibition I referred to earlier, “Primitivism” in 20th-Century Art (note those defensive inverted commas), mounted at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1984 by the head of its painting ...

Some general observations on the problem of cultural colonialism / Kenneth Coutts-Smith -- Outsiders or insiders? / David Maclagan -- Primitive art and the necessity of primitivism to art / Daniel ...

In the sharp light of calls for the decolonising of museums and art galleries, art critic Alastair Sooke explores the history and relevance of the movement known as primitivism. Show more In 1984, the ...

Tang Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the representation of young Chinese artist Gao Hang and put forward a solo exhibition "Digital Primitivism '' in the Bangkok space, starting on February 4, ...