What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. "A witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive art business."--Peter Plagens, Newsweek "Prices unfolds a fascinating history of the many 20th-century expeditions in search of exotic culture."--Michael W. Perri, Utne Reader
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Sally Price is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the College of William and Mary.
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Will change the way you think about "natural history"!,
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Sally Price makes a great point in this small, readable book -- Westerners place so-called "primitive" art (art from non-Western countries) into a different category than "Western art." This is why one must usually visit a natural history museum to see non-Western art! The "primitive" artist is nameless and supposedly representative of his/her entire society. Could we say the same of Western artists? Price discusses these and similar intriguing questions about why Western societies view non-Western art as closer to nature than to culture.
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What do we mean when we talk about "primitive art"? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive art, museum labels, universality principle, tribal art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Guinea, United States, Joseph Alsop, Kenneth Clark, South America, Bush Negro, Leonard Bernstein, William Rubin, African Arts, Family of Man, Nelson Rockefeller, Van Gogh, Lewis Mumford, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Firth, Susan Vogel, Third World New!
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What do we mean when we talk about "primitive art"? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive art, museum labels, universality principle, tribal art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Guinea, United States, Joseph Alsop, Kenneth Clark, South America, Bush Negro, Leonard Bernstein, William Rubin, African Arts, Family of Man, Nelson Rockefeller, Van Gogh, Lewis Mumford, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Firth, Susan Vogel, Third World New!
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- Art and Civilization by Bernard Samuel Myers on page 41, and Back Matter
- The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies by Carol F. Jopling in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primitive Art by Franz Boas on page 4, and page 57
- The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance : The Politics of Exclusion (Studies in African American History and Culture) by Eloise E. Johnson on page 115, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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