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Primitive Art

Book by Erwin O. Christensen; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955

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Art, Primitive

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...means Negro African sculpture...American art, the arts...is no one primitive style, but...as well as ancient Mexico...that modern African art is subject...Separated from ancient tribal customs...becomes of primitive styles in...
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Aspects of Primitive Art

Book by Robert Redfield, Melville J. Herskovits, Gordon F. Ekholm; Museum of Primitive Art, 1959

Subjects:

Art, Primitive

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...primitive art is not primitive at all; it is...in many cases, ancient and highly developed...styles. There is no art more sophisticated...represented by the African woodcarver...The Museum of Primitive Art: in, for example, African Worlds , recently...
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Three Regions of Primitive Art

Book by Hallam L. Movius, S. Kooijman, George Kubler; Museum of Primitive Art, 1961

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Art, Primitive

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...is usually called primitive art; they are the social...the peoples of the ancient Near East. On one...recur throughout the art of the ancient Mediterranean. Doorways...origins, what looks like art in primitive life is believed to...
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Primitive Art

Book by Douglas Fraser; Doubleday, 1962

Subjects:

Art, Primitive

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...I. Africa 36 The People - The Art - Bushman - The Negro - Western...describe and analyze the arts of primitive man in a single volume is...styles appear to be equally ancient, all of its achievements...
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Primitive Art

Book by L. Adam; A. Lane, Penguin books, 1940

Subjects:

Art, Primitive

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...works of art, particularly...sculptures, from Africa, the South...sculptors of ancient Mexico and...being really primitive must have...only in ancient Greece and...Melanesians, African Bantus and...study of art in general...confined to primitive art. In...beads from ancient Egypt and...all over Africa, Europe...between primitive art and primitive...

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Strategies of Accommodation: Toward an Inclusive Canon of South African Art

Journal article by Sabine Marschall; Art Journal, Vol. 60, 2001

Subjects:

Apartheid--Social aspects, Art--South Africa, Artists, Black--Social aspects, South Africa--Art, South Africans--Art

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...early settler-artists nor their South African-born colleagues paid any heed to the...countrys wealth of prehistoric rock art, If they indeed became aware at all of either, they dismissed them as primitive, exotic curiosities, which could have...
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Defining African Art: Primitive Negro Sculpture and the Aesthetic Philosophy of Albert Barnes

Journal article by Christa Clarke; African Arts, Vol. 36, 2003

Subjects:

African sculpture--Research, Sculpture, African--Research

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Among the contemporary debates that Primitive Negro Sculpture engages is that surrounding the purported antiquity of African artistic traditions. The publication...establish African sculpture as an ancient art form. Indeed, in a letter to Guillaume...
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Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Journal article by Ikem Stanley Okoye; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

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...construct of African sculpture as primitive, entered...the arts of ancient Benin are...of royal art patronage...Particular African societies...Goldwater, "Art History and...Forge, ed., Primitive Art and Society...study of "primitive society...anthropology of art stands in...History In Africa," Art History...
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Educating the "Native": A Study of the Education Adaptation Strategy in British Colonial Africa, 1910-1936

Journal article by Michael Omolewa; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006

Subjects:

Colonial Africa, 1870-1960, Education, Secondary--History, Education, Secondary--Methods, Educational tests and measurements--History, Educational tests and measurements--Methods, Educational tests--History, Educational tests--Methods, Examinations--History, Examinations--Methods, Secondary education--History, Secondary education--Methods

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...Geography Mechanics Physics Group IV: Art, Music, Handicraft, Technical Drawing...English in Nigeria Schools 1882-1960," West African Journal of Modern Languages (No. 3, 1978...practices in Africa had their origins in ancient beliefs of the Greeks and Romans. Ayandele...
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Shakespeare in Africa

Journal article by Lemuel A. Johnson; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 27, 1996

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...be a word that negates art itself: the grossness...Hamlet to study in the African bush: it would, he hoped, lift my mind above its primitive surroundings, and possibly...Kingdom of Antartica), and Africa and the Americas. This...broken skeleton of the ancient Tribes who celebrate...

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Nigeria: Primitive Peoples Do Not Produce Artwork of Anything like This Quality; Africa Was a Land of Glorious Civilizations That Existed All over the Continent. in 1928 One Such Civilization Was Accidentally Uncovered in the Forests of Nigeria. Robin Walker Reports

Magazine article by Robin Walker; New African, October 2006

Subjects:

Civilization--Social aspects, Culture--Social aspects, Nigeria--History, Nigeria--Political aspects, Nigeria--Social aspects

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Nigeria: Primitive Peoples Do Not...This Quality; Africa Was a Land of...the region. The ancient culture was now...pieces of Nok art have been recovered...incoherent mumbling. Primitive peoples do not...prehistoric site in Africa...craftsmanship art that must have...
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Fire on the Land: There's Nothing Primitive about Farmers Using Fire to Sustain Biodiversity

Magazine article by Russel Lawrence Barsh; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 23, Fall 1997

Subjects:

Biological diversity--Environmental aspects, Fire ecology--Evaluation, Primitive societies--Environmental policy

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...management tool, it remains as much "art" as science.(36) Indigenous...emissions. Fire is a very ancient tool, often regarded as "primitive." Yet there is nothing primitive...Mountains, Cape Province, South Africa," Biological Conservation...
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Taking the Mystery out of Buying African Art: Consumer News

Magazine article by Judith Oringer; Black Enterprise, Vol. 27, June 1997

Subjects:

Art objects, African--Economic aspects, Art, African--Collections and collecting, Carving (Decorative arts)--Purchasing, Masks--Purchasing

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...Even if a piece was used in ancient ceremonies, if it isnt beautiful...says Helene Leloup, owner of Art Primitif Gallery in Paris...can sometimes make collecting African art complicated is that many...Museums with a strong African or primitive art collection are rich resources...
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The World of Achilles: Ancient Soldiers, Modern Warriors

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The National Interest, Winter 2001

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Civil-military relations--International aspects, International economic relations--Social aspects, Press and politics--International aspects, Terrorism--Social aspects, United States--Foreign relations

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...essay by Michael Lind). Lind says that in primitive societies, lawless frontier towns and...future of warfare is already behind us, in ancient times. Robert D. Kaplan is a senior...1973), p. 76. (12.) See Sun Tzu, The Art of Warfare, translated by Roger T. Ames...
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Gloriousmud: Building with Mud Is One of the Oldest Architectural Traditions and Is Still Practised with Remarkable Results in Parts of West Africa, Though There Are Fears That Such Skills Will Eventually Be Lost for Ever. Here, James Morris Presents a Photographic Survey of Some Astonishing Examples of Religious and Domestic Buildings

Magazine article by James Morris; The Architectural Review, Vol. 215, January 2004

Subjects:

Architectural design--Evaluation, Building materials--Evaluation, Historic buildings--Materials

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...than a mud hut; a primitive vernacular half remembered...structures of other ancient cultures. Or possibly...dirt, yet in rural Africa (as in so much of...vibrant works of art with their own distinct...the qualities of African light and the inherent...happen when rural Africans are lifted out of...

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A PORTRAIT OF DEBAUCHERY; Philanderer, Drunk and Sexual Bully. Yet a Major New Exhibition Shows That Modigliani Created Some of Art's Most Sublime Images

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 23, 2006

Subjects:

Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Modigliani, Amedeo--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...style influenced by primitive arts and the friends...According to an ancient law, creditors could...then Capri to study art and, aged 16, he...grew up in South Africa, rode horses in a...blonde, Quebec-born art groupie who lived...patronage of the art dealer Leopold Zborowski...
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`Voyage' from the Real to Surreal

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, June 30, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as India, Thailand and Africa. The late 1960s took...games similar to the primitive ritual ceremonies of...from river to sea, from ancient times to the modern day...Corcoran Gallery of Art, 17th Street and New...the Corcoran Gallery of Art., A) NO CREDIT; B) By...
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Essays Again from Esteemed Trinidadian Nobelist

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 26, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...between the writers life and art. "To take an interest in a...motor-cycles," where "pennants with ancient devices fluttered from temples...fervently in caste, even as the primitive system was in decline in the...Muslim world, the Caribeean, Africa, England, even the American...
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Make-Up at the Dawn of Mankind; History Could Our Rise as a Species Have Come as a Result of a Desire to Make Ourselves More Attractive to the Opposite Sex?

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 25, 2006

Subjects:

Archaeology, Cosmetics

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...or ochres in ancient human settlements...maybe even as a primitive make-up used...things like rock art is it very...Cape of South Africa there was a...appeared in East Africa and, it is...join us to our ancient ancestors...Ancient cave art showing our...spoken, used primitive tools, and...
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Twombly's Ghostly Geometry

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, May 5, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...chariot and ancient warfare - on...itself a work of art, and the shows...fascinated with primitive and classical...ruins, to North Africa to view Roman...that Modern Art isnt dislocated...drawn to the primitive, the ritual...with dried African lilies. Like...writings from an ancient Greek sepulchral...

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Mask

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...world. They are used by primitive peoples chiefly to...masks of W and central Africa; the wooden masks of...many masks used in ancient Greek drama represented...events. See African art ; North American Native art ; masque . See...
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Jewelry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...silver have been used by primitive peoples and in modern...stones, and glass. The Ancient World The wearing...Found in a cave in S Africa in 2004, they consist...the ancient world, the art of jewelry making reached...transformation in the art of the jeweler; noted...
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Bark Cloth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BARK CLOTH primitive fabric made in tropical and subtropical...has been made and used in parts of Africa and India, the Malay Peninsula, Samoa...layers it makes an excellent bed. So ancient is the art of making the cloth that it is deeply...

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