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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At the south end of the vast first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in a room with big glass windows looking out on Central Park, stand nine extraordinary carved poles, tall and ...

NMAI copy 39088009556416 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the library of John C. Ewers. Preface -- Introduction -- Earlier attitudes -- Scope of primitive art -- Character ...

Picasso was inspired by ‘primitive’ art here, and the Hottentot Venus was exhibited as a freak. Now, the famous anthropological museum in Paris has reopened – and it’s better than ever. It’s high time ...