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	primitivism - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Primitivism can also refer to any philosophy which seeks to return to the roots of a larger movement, such as Muslims and Christians who seek to return to the first few centuries of Islam or Christianity.
		Primitivism, or anarcho-primitivism, is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization.
		This criticism against primitivism suggests that primitivism could only be attained temporarily, and under scenarios which most people would consider to be nightmarish dystopias.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Primitivism (945 words)

	World's Most Famous Art Styles
		Art and Language produced a good deal of art as well as theoretical writings, though by the end of the 1970s the group was essentially reduced to Baldwin, Harrison and Ramsden as the political analysis that developed within the group resulted in many members leaving to work in more activist political occupations.
		Art for arts sake lacked legitimacy, and this group would attempt to utilizes art to communicate to the viewer; they wanted to merge the spiritual significance art could contain with the functionality of everyday living.
		Kinetic art is a general term for all art that involves actual moving pieces or the simulation of motion through use of artificial lighting, optical illusions or the use of a moving force of some kind.
	www.artandpainting.net /style.htm (15691 words)

	PhD Program >> Courses
		Particular attention will be paid to the function of primitivism within modernist discourse and to critical evaluations of the concept of primitivism in the fields of anthropology, literary criticism, cultural geography, and cultural history.
		Issues of politics and art of the modernist period in Europe, focusing on movements significantly involved with and influenced by political thought and activism—from anarchism and marxism to nationalism, neocatholicism, royalism and fascism—and/or subject to recent politicized art historical interpretation.
		Art provides an unparalleled liminal space for the presentation and representation of violence, destruction, sadism, masochism, and other breaches of moral code otherwise controlled and legislated against in civil society.
	www.duke.edu /web/art/phdprog/courses.html (2133 words)

	ART: Essays-Music-Poetry-Prose
		The novelty of the anti-life philosophy that fueled a reincarnation of primitivism in the arts at the dawn of this century is wearing thin, undoubtedly because we are becoming numb to arousal by shock.
		Driven underground by academics, critics and artists of avant garde art for decades and largely untaught in any of our learning institutions, the crafts of representationalism in painting and sculpture have continued to be taught by a handful of artist/teachers who refused to let their art forms perish.
		Concluding an essay entitled “Art and Moral Treason,” she says: “...art is the fuel and spark- plug of a man’s soul; its task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
	www.art-21.org /Docs/Articles/LLEssay1.htm (4976 words)

	NEWSgrist - where spin is art: Primitivism in the 21st century?
		It acknowledges that Primitivism, as it was once understood, is no longer a convincing framework to evaluate and compare art from different cultures, and reexamines it from the perspective of the 21st century.
		Primitivism refers to a period in the development of modern art that began when a number of young, primarily French artists began seriously to consider the aesthetics of sculptural objects from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
		Among the tourist art is a reproduction of a Bamana chi wara headdress and an ambiguous contemporary mask from
	newsgrist.typepad.com /underbelly/2007/02/primitivism_in_.html (1873 words)

	Common Denominators
		Primitivism thenwas used to refer to the tribal art of the African and Oceanic art.
		Primitive Art is then synonymous with African and Oceanic art and primitivism does not refer to the tribal arts in themselves, but to the Western interest in and reaction to them.
		Within the art of the Fauves, in the early 20th century, we see more of a synthesis of late nineteenth-century ideas rather than a radical departure in style that we see with the Cubists.The Fauves were said to have discovered African Art in 1906.
	www.chatham.edu /PTI/AmericanHistorythroughArt/common_denominators_curriculum.htm (5536 words)

	Special Department Lectures & Events \| Lectures & Events \| Department of Art History and Archaeology \| Columbia ...
		Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea provides a 21st century view of the notion of Primitivism which, in the 20th century, traced formal relationships between modern western art and the “primitive” (not only African art but Pre-Columbian, Native American and Oceanic art).
		It is now apparent that Primitivism belongs to a historical period of modern art that was already ending in 1984.
		Artists of the 21st century are engaged in a different kind of dialogue with the arts of Africa.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/arthistory/html/dept_lande_special.html (708 words)

	I Prefer the Navajo Rug: Locating and American Primitive
		While a broad, virtually indiscriminate primitivism that attempted to define a Western tradition distinct from all other artistic form and methodology was certainly common in responses to the Armory Show, critics of the 1913 exhibition also praised or denounced works through their connection to Native American sculpture, weaving, and basketry.
		The Taos Art Colony, formed in the 1880s, is probably the most well-known of the early groups of artists who moved to the Southwest, but a number of other painters moved to the territories that would become Arizona and New Mexico.
		Primitivism came to encompass not only children but also "neurotics, schizophrenics, criminals and sexual deviants, whose 'conditions' were commonly understood as degenerative—a sort of twisted return to primitive states" (Rhodes 23).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MUSEUM/Armory/primitivism.html (7368 words)

	CIAP, Primitivism, Primitive, Primitive Art
		Another aim is to establish a theoretical definition of primitive art, conceived as an autonomous manifestation of art not linked to western cultural constructs.
		The subject of the research is interdisciplinary, since it deals not only with the history of art, but also with a wide range of humanistic studies, including aesthetics, the history of ideas, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, ethnography of primitive societies and history of colonialism.
		The subjects of primitive art and primitivism are almost totally absent from the literature published in Spanish and Catalan, in clear contrast with the literature published in French and English.
	www.upf.edu /iuc/ciap/angles/down.htm (194 words)

	History of Art 489-002 Special Topics in Art & Culture: Primitivism: A Modern Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Primitivism has been a preoccupation of the modern artist and citizen in the West.
		This course is an examination of how "the primitive" as a construction has been used in discussions of painting, sculpture, and graphic art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		Following the premise that "primitive" is best understood as a term that relies upon binary conceptions of high and low art, we'll consider its deployment across the social relations of gender, race, class, and ethnicity, and the historical grid of time and geography.
	www.umich.edu /~hartspc/histart/W2006/489-002.html (100 words)

	primitivism - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		primitivism in art, the style of works of self-trained artists who develop their talents in a fanciful and fresh manner, as in the paintings of Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses.
		The term primitive has also been used to describe the style of early American naive painters such as Edward Hicks and has been applied to the art of the various Italian and Netherlandish schools produced prior to c.1450.
		Rethinking Nietzsche in Mann's Doktor Faustus: crisis, parody, primitivism, and the possibilities of Dionysian art in a post-Nietzschean era.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-primitiv.html (466 words)

	LC Subject Headings, ARLIS/NA workshop
		In the first example, the string includes (1) a qualified heading, that is, a term (such as Art) modified by a national, regional, ethnic, or religious adjective; and (2) the geographic subdivision for the place of origin.
		Works about art in private or public collections, or works that simply list and describe art, may require headings subdivided by terms like catalogs, exhibitions, etc. As in Exercise 6, the kind of heading and treatment in the work cataloged determines the subdivision.
		Distinct from "primitive art" and "primitive architecture," which are outdated terms formerly used for art and architecture of certain people considered to be outside the spheres of influence of other, politically dominant cultural groups.
	www.lib.umd.edu /TSD/CATDEPT/firstaid.html (1412 words)

	Sean Kelly Gallery: Past and future exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Susan Vogel is a Professor of African Art at Columbia University and founding Director of New York’s Museum for African Art.
		Vogel and her students will carefully select the African and contemporary materials from private collections in order to challenge the existing definitions of “primitivism” in art posited by Goldwater and Rubin’s exhibitions.
		By renegotiating the parameters of African and contemporary art this exhibition endeavors to generate new and surprising perspectives.
	www.artnet.com /Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=140199&cid=111345 (294 words)

	DCPL: MLK: Pathfinders: Folk Art & Outsider Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The commonest English-language equivalent for art brut is "Outsider art".
		The Folk Art Society is a nonprofit organization for the study of folk art.
		This museum focuses on Spanish Colonial art, contemporary Southwestern Hispanic art, international textiles and costume, and international folk art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.dclibrary.org /guides/art-outsider.html (411 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002029144
		Beginning with the "discovery" of that art by European artists and writers early in the twentieth century, this anthology charts the evolving pictorial responses, artistic aspirations, aesthetic theories, and cultural debates that have developed from this encounter.
		Primitivism designates not a specific movement or group of artists, but a persuasive notion crucial to twentieth-century art and modern thinking generally.
		Because the encounter between the West and primitive art took place at the height of Western colonialism, a number of racial and political issues come into play, either overtly or implicitly, in writings about both the art and the people who produced it.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal042/2002029144.html (301 words)

	Alibris: Primitivism
		Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern
		The quintessential guide to folk art in America, based on the landmark Whitney Museum exhibit of 1974, illustrates more than 400 outstanding examples of American craft, covering four major categories--painted, drawn, or stitched pictures; sculpture; architectural decoration; and decorated household objects.
		Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity was intended to be the first volume of a four-part series of books covering the history of primitivism and related ideas, but the outbreak of World War II, and, later, Lovejoy's death, prevented the other books from being published as originally conceived by the two authors.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Primitivism (946 words)

	All About Art - Styles of Art
		These pieces of art were painted as if someone just took a quick look at the subject of the painting.
		Pop art can be any every day item that is drawn in a brash and colorful way.
		Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in life.
	library.thinkquest.org /J001159/artstyle.htm (639 words)

	Primitivism
		The people of these countries and their cultures were labelled as ‘primitive’ and associated with often conflicting stereotypes such as savagery, nobility, simplicity, exoticism, mystery and paganism.
		The phenomenon of Primitivism also saw a reassessment of some of the first principles of art.
		Matisse and Picasso were both interested in 'primitive art' but they were attracted to different cultures for different reasons.
	www.tate.org.uk /imap/pages/animated/keyterms.htm (408 words)

	Imitating the Primitive - January 4, 2007 - The New York Sun
		Value a totem pole, mask, or "fetish" (there we go again with the quote marks) as an essay in pure form and you will be accused of cultural imperialism.
		"Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea" — curated by 18 graduate students of Susan Vogel, professor of African Art at Columbia University and founder and former director of the Museum for African Art — adds a lively twist to the issue of how we think about African art.
		The show brings together examples of African art from private collections with the work of selected contemporary artists, most of them white and none of them active in Africa.
	www.nysun.com /article/46095 (518 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : art
		He was famous in the art world by the beginning of 1982, and rich soon afterward.
		Whatever historical modes stirred him—Expressionism, “primitivism,” art brut, Pop—lived anew, for a spell, at his hands, as did the influence of paragons including Picasso, Dubuffet, Pollock, and Twombly.
		As a fl artist, Basquiat isn’t the Jackie Robinson of the American art world—which, until quite recently, was woefully all but lily-white—so much as its Willie Mays, abolishing forever racial identity as remarkable in the field’s top rank.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/art/articles/050404craw_artworld (1274 words)

	NEO-PRIMITIVISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the West, Neo-primitivism was an aftermath of the exhibition of the folk arts of Africa, Australia, and Oceania in Paris.
		The genesis of the style can be found in the folk art of Russia -- such as the lubok (popular print) and peasant applied art (distaffs, spoons, embroideries), but even more in icon painting.
		All these artistic devices find parallels in the art of the Russian folk, particularly in icons, street signs, wooden toys, decorated distaffs, and lubok (usually hand colored in red, green, purple, and yellow).
	www.rollins.edu /Foreign_Lang/Russian/neoprim.html (222 words)

	ArtCal - Sean Kelly Gallery - Primitivism Revisited
		This unique exhibition is curated by the graduate students of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, under the guidance of Susan Vogel - Columbia University Professor of African Art and founding Director of the Museum for African Art in New York.
		Primitivism Revisited provides a rich context to explore the notion of Primitivism, a concept, which in the 20th century proposed a close, formal relationship between "primitive" (in that case African art) and contemporary western art.
		Primitivism Revisited questions the validity of existing notions of "primitivism" in light of postmodern art practice.
	www.artcal.net /event/view/1/3577 (211 words)

	Post-Impressionism - Post-Impressionism Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Post-Impressionism is a French art movement in early Modernism, also known as Synthetism.
		It is almost absurd to call it Post-Impressionism for two reasons: because it diverged so strongly away from its predecessors - Impressionists, with all the admiration and due respect paid, and because "Post-Impressionism" started in early '80s while impressionism was still gaining speed.
		Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in different directions...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/c19th/pimpressionism.htm (533 words)

	Art for sale Lugansk Art Gallery - buy paintings, oil paintings for sale, abstract art works, landscape paintings, nude ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	Fine Art: Primitivism
		David Freeman is a British Art Historian, a fine author and educationalist with 35 years of experience in the world of fine art to his credit.
		My opinion on Primitivism is the appropriation of formal qualtities from cultural artefacts attached to Non-European i.e.
		The largest collections of Matisse's works are in the Baltimore Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
	en.allexperts.com /q/Fine-Art-3122/Primitivism.htm (1031 words)

	Fineberg, J., ed.: Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism.
		It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art, served as central metaphors for artistic spontaneity and honesty, and provided a window into the fundamental human qualities explored by modern artists.
		They examine, for example, the influence of child art on such artists as Kandinsky, Klee, Larionov, and Miró; the diverse styles of children's art; the influence of Romantic ideas on perceptions of children's art; the conception of giftedness versus education in children's drawings; and the relationship between children's art and primitivism.
		The essays draw on art theory, psychology, and the close study of individual works of art and written texts.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/6291.html (423 words)

	Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art
		Focusing on the Western artistic engagement with 'traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America,' the sources here offer a broad range of opinions from artists and critics, archaeologists and psychologists....
		The Art of the Savage and Its Principles, 1915
		Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8228.html (820 words)

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