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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012 This article examines the representation of the primitive in two peasant novels, Émile Zola's La Terre (1887, trans. as The Earth) and Knut Hamsun's Markens grøde (1917, trans. as Growth of the Soil).
Riikka Rossi
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Aesthetic primitivism revisited: The global diaspora of ‘primitive art’ and the rise of indigenous modernisms [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 This paper examines the global export of the construct of primitive art which developed in Europe in the early-twentieth century and the catalytic role it played in the emergence of modernist art forms produced by Indigenous peoples.
Ruth B. Phillips
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Josef Čapek’s Interpretation of Primitivism
Estetika, 2012 Josef Čapek’s writings from between 1914 and 1920 present a distinctive conception of primitivism, which was, beginning in the early twentieth century, of fundamental importance for the development of modern trends in the fine arts, in connection with ...
Pavla Pečinková
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European encounters with ‘primitive art’ during the late nineteenth century [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 This is an introduction to the present Journal of Art Historiography’s special issue on the European reception of so-called primitive art in around 1900.
Raymond Corbey , Wilfried Van Damme
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Via@, 2020 The tourism development of the Wa village of Wengding, dubbed “the last primitive tribe” in China by public and private stakeholders in its promotion as a tourist site, is based around a complex of facilities and amenities in the village space, and ...
Sarah Coulouma
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The Colonial Pygmalion: Unsettling Dinesen in Out of Africa
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2015 This paper explores the atavistic and feudal historical fantasies that structure Isak Dinesen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa. It analyses the imagery and symbolic logic of the memoir in conjunction with Dinesen’s letters from Africa in order to examine how
Shaun Irlam
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Lucrèce sur les origines et le développement des arts et des métiers
Aitia, 2020 Lucretius’ story of the stages of human development from the primitive condition of the first men to our own era occupies a substantial part of the fifth chant of DRN (925-1457).
Voula Tsouna
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, 2019 Primitivism has a long history. Its beginnings as a distinctive discourse, however, are more widely associated with early-modern encounters between European explorers and the New World.
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Primitivism and humanist teleology in art history around 1900 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 The following text deals with the way the art of non-European peoples has been handled conceptually and theoretically by researchers around 1900. The text will focus on Karl Woermann, especially on his art history of “all peoples of all times”, Die ...
Susanne Leeb
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Plan des formes, plan des forces
Socio-anthropologie, 2017 Between Negerplastik (1915) and Afrikanische Plastik (1921), there is a shift in Carl Einstein’s perspective. This author, who was one of the first thinkers on African art and its scope for the avant-gardes, avoids a disembedded aesthetic approach ...
Pauline Nadrigny
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