It traces primitivism's basic precepts back to their authoritarian roots, reveals primitivist misconceptions about anarchism, capitalism and technology, shows how the corporate media have used ...

“Why is it that, in our eyes/Any past time/Seems better?” We live in hard times, in which the past is incommunicable. The survivors from the older generations are incapable of passing on the ...

The exhibition which the Museum of Modern Art has mounted this fall under the title, “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” is an event of unusual interest. 1 Even before one has entered the exhibition ...

Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe, asserted promotion of ‘primitivism’ has brought conflict to the region since the 1970s. Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe ...

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 ...