Death of Authentic Primitive Art And Other Tales of Progress

Name: Death of Authentic Primitive Art And Other Tales of Progress
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ISBN: 9780520212114

ISBN-10: 0520212118

ISBN-13: 9780520212114

Edition: 1999

Authors: Shelly Errington

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In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. At the same time, the penetration of nation-states, the tourist industry, and transnational corporations into regions that formerly produced these artifacts has severely reduced supplies of "primitive art," bringing about a second "death." Errington argues that the construction of the primitive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (and the kinds of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.98" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


A Note on Punctuation and the Primitive


Introduction: Two Centuries of Progress



The Death of Authentic Primitive Art



Three Ways to Tell the History of (Primitive) Art



What Became Authentic Primitive Art?



The Universality of Art as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy



The Death of Authentic Primitive Art



Authenticity, Primitivism, and Art Revisited



And Other Tales of Progress: Nationalism, Modernization, Development



Nationalizing the Pre-Columbian Past in Mexico and the United States



The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese



Making Progress on Borobudur


Afterword


Notes


References


Index


Illustration Credits