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 ...

Aside from astronomers and geologists, who pay mankind little regard, anthropologists have perhaps the longest view of human history. For many a modern artist and thinker, anthropological researches ...

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 ...

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 ...

To attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for ...

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 mystique of connoisseurship -- The universality principle -- The night side of man -- Anonymity and timelessness -- Power plays -- Objets d'art and ethnographic artifacts -- From signature to ...