The exhibition which the Museum of Modern Art has mounted this fall under the title, “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” is an event of unusual interest. 1 Even before one has entered the exhibition ...

As capitalism entered the phase of globalization, all of society was immersed in a technological system that imprisons and conditions it. Technological society is at the same time the most ...

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 ...

It traces primitivism's basic precepts back to their authoritarian roots, reveals primitivist misconceptions about anarchism, capitalism and technology, shows how the corporate media have used ...

THIS imposing undertaking, of which the first volume is under review, proposes to give direct evidence of the views held throughout Western civilization on primitivism and related ideas. Its chief ...

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 ...

Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe, asserted promotion of ‘primitivism’ has brought conflict to the region since the 1970s. Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe ...

Taking inspiration from non-Western and prehistoric elements, the art of primitivism, which works to recreate a “primitive” experience, became an important step in developing modern art. Originating ...

Strange Primitivism and Other Things’ is a conversation between Adrian Phiffer and Tei Carpenter, moderated by Hans Ibelings. It takes as its subject Phiffer’s new book ‘Strange Primitivism’, ...