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PRIMITIVISM [PDF]

, 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. As this early era of exploration developed into a sustained period of global conquest and colonization, primitivist figures began to feature heavily in textual and ...
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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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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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Primitivisme et surréalisme : une  « synthèse » impossible ?

Methodos, 2004
The article puts questions on the complex status of “the Primitive” within Surrealism, and particularly within some works of André Breton. The author at first aims at showing that Surrealism prolongs some cultural and artistic movements based on critics ...
Philippe Sabot
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From the Tourismification of a Village to the Displacement of its Population: Expressions of a Hierarchical Relationship Between the Chinese State and the Wa Ethnic Minority

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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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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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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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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Dance That “Suggested Nothing but Itself”: Josephine Baker and Abstraction

Arts, 2020
This article reconsiders Josephine Baker’s legacy for the field of dance by emphasizing the principles of abstraction that she developed through performance.
Joanna Dee Das
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