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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The exhibition which the Museum of Modern Art has mounted this fall under the title, “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” is an event of unusual interest. 1 Even before one has entered the exhibition ...

THIS imposing undertaking, of which the first volume is under review, proposes to give direct evidence of the views held throughout Western civilization on primitivism and related ideas. Its chief ...

The second thread of primitivism – the reduction of formal means – is best exemplified by the ‘cut-outs’ made by Henri Matisse in the 1940s.Although primitivism in modern Indian art arose partly in ...