What is so primitive about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. A witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive art business.--Peter Plagens, Newsweek Prices unfolds a fascinating history of the many 20th-century expeditions in search of ...
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What is so primitive about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. A witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive art business.--Peter Plagens, Newsweek Prices unfolds a fascinating history of the many 20th-century expeditions in search of exotic culture.--Michael W. Perri, Utne Reader
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