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| | ArtWorld Aesthetics - Art Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Art criticism, as we understand it today, emerged in the 18th century, initially, as a result of commentaries by the philosopher, Diderot, on the French salon. |
 | | The arts of Africa were initially termed "primitive," a legacy of Darwinism and the anthropologists of the 19th century, who saw Europe as the apex of social evolution. |
 | | Similarly, entrenched in African Art literature is the word "tribal," coined by the late William Fagg, an influential African art historian in the early 1960s, who stated, "What is not tribal [art] is not African". |
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