primitivism

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• In the paper the author applies the critic method of primitivism to appreciate Shen Congwen's novels.
• Weege's draftmanship has a kind of precise naivete - an intentional primitivism that is at once accurate and sharply distorted.
• At the Morning Star Ranch in Marin, the residents called their way of life "voluntary primitivism," a design for living that transcended both excessive affluence and minimal hygiene.
• One of the strong currents found within the avant-garde art movement was that of a certain fascination with "primitivism", which looked to non-European sources for inspiration and which was significantly rooted in a rejection of more traditional Western forms of art. Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development
• In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, Dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists.
• Peter Gabriel's world sound (from his album Passion) intensifies the atmosphere of generic primitivism, although bowls and other props identify the setting as Africa.
• Though suggestive of mystic, pagan rites of purification and primitivism, the film, like all true surrealism, outrageously defies attempts at pigeonholing analysis and close reading.
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• What's provocative about Copeland's book is how he doesn't stick to just what's on the stage, as so many dance-critic purists do, but draws associations and contrasts with other art dynamics, such as demonstrating how Cunningham's light, flexible, transistorized movements answered the heavy clomp and primitivism of Jackson Pollock's action painting and the archetypal contortions of Martha Graham. Mind Expansion thru Sight and Sound: James Wolcott
• And not so long ago, an exhibition such as this would have felt obliged to point this out, to provide long wall texts explaining that modern art's "primitivism" was the racist culture of an age of empire. Culture | guardian.co.uk