Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best. Since ...

This article posits a relation between the demise of "primitive art" and the revival of individual creativity as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Scarcely 100 years have passed since the ...

THE anthropologist, when confronted with some of the more extreme pronouncements of æsthetic judgment on the primitive artist, was at one time perhaps a little too apt to regard them as unwarranted ...

Essay on the Western construct of Authentic Primitive Art, why portable and durable Primitive Art was priviliged over large, fragile, or impermanent objects. The Western idea of art as commodity, ...

Two exhibitions of objects of art are being arranged for this year, which will be of no little scientific, as well as aesthetic, interest. Of these, the first will illustrate the art of primitive ...