Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

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 ...

PRIMITIVISM is a major stylistic discipline in twentieth-century art. Looking at some children’s drawings, Picasso is reported to have said, “When I was a child I drew like Michelangelo. It took me ...

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 ...

PARIS — Parisians and tourists had their first chance Friday to visit Paris’ new primitive-art museum, which opened to the public for three days of free entry. But visitors to the Quai Branly Museum ...

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Primitivism in painting (and its close relative fauvism) was poorly received when it first appeared in the work of artists like Paul Gauguin, but it left a lasting mark on art. It was difficult for ...