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"Primitivism" in 20th century art : affinity of the tribal and the modern : volume 2

by William Rubin

This collection of essays examines the influence of tribal arts, especially from Africa and Oceania, on modernism. Over one thousand illustrations compare traditional objects with twentieth-century art to analyse their aesthetic and historical relationships.

Accession 2178 ISBN 0870705342 Publisher Museum of Modern Art
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Succeeding background chapters by historians of Primitive art trace the arrival and dissemination of African, Oceanic, American, Indian, and Eskimo art in the West. The book contains a series of essays on primitivism in the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, Moore, the Surrealists, Abstract Expressionists."--BOOK COVER.

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