Primitivism in Modern Art / / Robert Goldwater.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Goldwater, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Enl. ed. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.) :; 68 halftones

This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a “primitivism of the subconscious” in Miró, Klee, and Dali. Two of Goldwater's related essays—“Judgments of Primitive Art, 1905–1965” and “Art History and Anthropology”—have been added for this new paperback edition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Publisher’s Note to the Enlarged Edition -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Introduction -- I Primitive Art in Europe -- II The Preparation -- III Romantic Primitivism -- IV Emotional Primitivism -- V Intellectual Primitivism -- VI The Primitivism of the Subconscious -- VII Primitivism in Modern Sculpture -- VIII A Definition of Primitivism -- IX Judgments of Primitive Art, 1905-1965 -- X Art History and Anthropology: Some Comparisons of Methodology -- Appendix -- The Publications of Robert Goldwater (1907-1973) -- Index