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 ...

Is the 21st century a Dark Age, compared to the 20th? Is the culture of modernity and enlightenment slipping away, in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world? Is this really an age of neo-primitivism and ...

“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 ...

Stanford University Press, 272 pp. According to the Russian־Jewish art critic, Abram Efros (1888-1954), modern Jewish art needs to embody two principles: European modernism and Jewish folk art. In his ...

Taking inspiration from non-Western and prehistoric elements, the art of primitivism, which works to recreate a “primitive” experience, became an important step in developing modern art. Originating ...

In the sharp light of calls for the decolonising of museums and art galleries, art critic Alastair Sooke explores the history and relevance of the movement known as primitivism. Show more In 1984, the ...

For much of the Twentieth Century, artistic primitivism was central to the definition and history of modernism in art. Everyone has heard of Picasso and his passion for African sculpture, exemplified ...

Founded in 1903, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present ...