Primitivism in Modern Art / / Robert Goldwater.

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 pri...

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