The Myth of Primitivism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hiller, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134980383
• Artikelnr.: 47890444

Autorenporträt

Susan Hiller

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
PART I
Editor's introduction
1. Some general observations on the problem of cultural colonialism
2. Outsiders or insiders?
3. Primitive art and the necessity of primitivism to art
4. Expeditions: on race and nation Black Audio/Film Collective
PART II
Editor's introduction
5. Emil Nolde's 'ethnographic' still lifes: primitivism
tradition
and modernity
6. Unofficial versions
7. The resurgence of the night-mind: primitivist revivals in recent art
8. From primitivism to ethnic arts
PART III
Editor's introduction
9. Ethnography and the formation of national and cultural identities
10. Art and meaning
11. Dark continents explored by women
12. Leonardo's 'Last Supper' in Fiji
PART IV
Editor's introduction
13. The search for virginity
14. Unsettled accounts of Indians and others
15. Locality fails
16. Aboriginal representation and kitsch
17. Born from sharp rocks
Notes on contributors
Index