The Aesthetics Of Primitive Art

Author : H. Gene Blocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Primitive Art written by H. Gene Blocker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Blocker extends the philosophy of art to traditional African, Pre-Columbian Meso-American, and other works of "primitive art". Contents: Is Primitive Art Primitive? Is Primitive Art Art? Aesthetic Consciousness in Primitive Art; Critical Assessment of Primitive Art.

Author : Carol F. Jopling
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies written by Carol F. Jopling and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226680675
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primitive Art in Civilized Places written by Sally Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Mystique of Connoisseurship2. The Universality Principle3. The Night Side of Man4. Anonymity and Timelessness5. Power Plays6. Objets d'Art and Ethnographic Artifacts7. From Signature to Pedigree8. A Case in PointAfterwordNotesReferences CitedIllustration Credits Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Frances S. Connelly
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041834
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleep of Reason written by Frances S. Connelly and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances S. Connelly
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleep of Reason written by Frances S. Connelly and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive revision of our understanding of the phenomenon of primitivism and its impact on modern art, centering on the invention of the idea of "primitive" art. Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native American imagery. The drawbacks of such an approach have become increasingly apparent, the most problematic being its perpetuation of the notion that certain traditions are indeed "primitive". Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic expression. She contends that, instead of the paintings of Gauguin, the publication of Vico's New Science in 1725 lies much closer to the origins of primitivism because it first articulated the essential framework of ideas through which Europeans would understand "primitive" expression. Based upon a close reading of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, including voyage accounts, ethnographies, aesthetic theories, and popular journals, The Sleep of Reason establishes that the term "primitive" art did not refer so much to actual stylistic traditions but to a collection of visual attributes that Europeans construed to be universal characteristics of "primitive" expression, specifically the hieroglyph, the grotesque, and the ornamental. Further, these attributes show that "primitive" expression was constructed as the inverse of the classical ideal. Connelly provides case studies of artists and aestheticians who advocated, attempted, or realizedthe assimilation of these "primitive" characteristics, including some artists never before associated with primitivism as well as significant reevaluations of Gauguin and Picasso. Connelly's study offers a more complex and historically grounded view of primitivism, making a timely and significant contribution to the renewed discussion of primitivism.

Author : Jack D. Flam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212787
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primitivism and Twentieth-century Art written by Jack D. Flam and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a much needed, important collection-a goldmine of sources for scholars and students. The texts articulate the key Primitivist aesthetic discourses of the period, offering crucial insight into the complex and always changing nexus between culture, politics, and representation. Because of the breadth of the materials covered and the controversies they raise, this anthology is one of the all too rare volumes that not only will provide reference materials for years to come but also will feature centrally in classroom discussions."--Suzanne Preston Blier, author of African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power "For almost a century art historians have fretted about the notion of primitivism in the arts. This comprehensive-in both senses of the word-anthology is a peerless source of the history of responses to works categorized as 'primitive.' In its range, the book touches upon all the troubling questions-formal, anthropological, political, historical-that have bedeviled the study of the arts of Oceania, Africa, and North and South America, and provides the grounds, at last, for intelligent pursuit of keener distinctions. I regard this book as a superb contribution to the study of Modern art; in fact, indispensable."--Dore Ashton, author of Noguchi East and West "An extraordinarily useful and complete collection of primary documents, many translated for the first time into English, and almost all unlikely to be encountered elsewhere without serious effort. Its five sections, each with a lively and scholarly introduction, reveal the diverse views of artists and writers on primitive art from Matisse, Picasso, and Fry to many far less known and sometimes surprising figures. The book also uncovers the politics and aesthetics of the major museum exhibitions that gained acceptance for art that had been both reviled and mythologized. Recent texts included are all germane. This book will be invaluable for any college course on the topic."--Shelly Errington, author of The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress "An exceptionally valuable anthology of seventy documents--most heretofore unavailable in English--on the ongoing controversies surrounding Primitivism and Modern art. Insightfully chosen and annotated, the collection is brilliantly introduced by Jack Flam's essay on the historical progression, contexts, and cultural complexities of more than one hundred years' ideas about Primitivism. Rich, timely, illuminating."--Herbert M. Cole, author of Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa

Author : Richard L. Anderson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in Primitive Societies written by Richard L. Anderson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together the many insights of cultural anthropologists and art historians, treating art as both a visual and a cultural phenomenon"--

Author : Robert Redfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Primitive Art written by Robert Redfield and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405155329
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Art written by Howard Morphy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.

Author : Vincent Sherry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316720535
Total Pages : 1579 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Modernism written by Vincent Sherry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 1579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.