Cosmopolitan Primitivism
Author: Paul Stasi
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 526
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Author: Paul Stasi
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1315412837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1972, this books examines the subject of primitivism through the study of the work of a number of major writers, including D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. It looks at the variety of definitions and uses of primitivism and how the idea has changed over time as well as with each writer. In doing so, it is argued that primitivism denotes, or arises from, a sense of crisis in civilization and it is born of the interplay between the civilized self and the desire to reject or transform it. This book will be of interest to those studying modern literature.
Author: Joana Cunha Leal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-07
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1003833292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism, including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts, which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism, as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Iberian studies, Latin American studies, colonialism, and modernism. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Susan Hiller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-23
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1134980388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan Hiller's introductions to each section, discussions range from the origins of cultural colonialism to eurocentric ideas of primitive societies, including the use of primitive culture in constructing national identities, and the appropriation of primitivist imagery in modernist art. The result is a controversial critique of art theory, practice and politics, and a major enquiry into the history of primitivism and its implications for contemporary culture.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781230034676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...to hunt up a snake for dinner. Upon an island near his cave he was wont to find a toothsome variety of serpent; but on this occasion a flood had swelled the river and swept away his stepping stones. The poor fellow was in a bad plight, and while he was rummaging about for consolation in the pathetic winds he discovered that the storm had uprooted an enormous pine tree and hurled it across the torrent. Using this for a footpath, our friend, to use an Irishism, passed over upon dry ground. Such was the inception of the historic bridge. There can be no doubt that the first means used by primitive man to cross rivers and streams were stepping stones, fallen trees or beams of timber. When the stream was too wide for one plank to reach across it the stepping stones would be used for piers and several beams thrown over them, thus making a continuous bridge. Little progress in the art of bridge building was made in the dreary millenniums between the rude barbarian and the cultured Egyptian, Grecian and Roman. Owing to the savage spirit of perpetual warfare, in earliest times a bridge would have been as much an invitation to an invader as it is now to commercial greatness. Alexander's pontoon bridge over the Ganges, those of Darius over the Bosphorus and the Danube; that of C;esar over the Rhine, of Xerxes across the Hellespont, and Trajan's great structure in Dacia, all meant slaughter and spoliation. History ascribes to the beautiful and romantic queen, Semiramis, the credit of building the first important and useful bridge, when, seeking to make Babylon the peer of Nineveh, she threw her famous structure across the Euphrates in 783 B.c. This bridge had a wooden superstructure and was 500 furlongs in length. It had stone piers, which were built...
Author: Elazar Barkan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780804724869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings."
Author: George Boas
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-07-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780801856105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Noble Savage, earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, cynicism, Christianity . . . "All of us men were born in the first man without vice, and all of us lost the innocence of our nature by the sin of the same man. Thence our inherited mortality, thence the manifold corruptions of body and mind, thence ignorance, distress, useless cares, illicit lusts, sacrilegious errors, empty fear, harmful love, unwarranted joys, punishable counsels, and a number of miseries no smaller than that of our crimes."—St. Prosper of Aquitania, quoted in Primitivism and Related Ideas in the Middle Ages This volume of essays, written by George Boas in collaboration with Arthur O. Lovejoy, was originally intended to be the second in a series of four documenting the history of primitivism and related ideas about goodness in the world. Covering the Middle Ages, these essays underscore the continuity between pagan and Christian cultures with respect to concepts of primitivism and examine the latter period's modifications of a group of favorite classical themes. They demonstrate the growth of primitivism and anti-primitivism from the first through the thirteenth centuries and include a discussion of such subjects as the Noble Savage, earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, and cynicism and Christianity. They also, as Boas suggests in his preface, "drive the piles for a bridge between the Renaissance and Classical Antiquity, although the superstructure itself remains to be constructed."
Author: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2024-04-16
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0593700678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums “A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution . . . the argument [Kuper] makes in The Museum of Other People is important precisely because just about no one else is making it. He asks the questions that others are too shy to pose. . . . Required reading.” –Financial Times (UK) In this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as colonial enterprises, their halls were populated by displays of plundered art, artifacts, dioramas, bones, and relics. Kuper reveals the politics and struggles of trying to build these museums in Germany, France, and England in the mid-19th century, and the dramatic encounters between the very colorful and eccentric collectors, curators, political figures, and high members of the church who founded them. He also details the creation of contemporary museums and exhibitions, including the Smithsonian, the Harvard’s Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and the famous 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago which was inspired by the Paris World Fair of 1889. Despite the widespread popularity and cultural importance of these institutions, there also lies a murky legacy of imperialism, colonialism, and scientific racism in their creation. Kuper tackles difficult questions of repatriation and justice, and how best to ensure that the future of these museums is an ethical, appreciative one that promotes learning and cultural exchange. A stunning, unique, accessible work based on a lifetime of research, The Museum of Other People reckons with the painfully fraught history of museums of natural history, and how curators, anthropologists, and museumgoers alike can move forward alongside these time-honored institutions.
Author: Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226808321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture),Gone Primitivewill engage not just specialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American jewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an African mask. "A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what being good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, usually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and animated by some surprising sympathies."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative."--Scott L. Malcomson,Voice Literary Supplement
Author: Andrew Joseph Treno
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 358
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