“Why is it that, in our eyes/Any past time/Seems better?” We live in hard times, in which the past is incommunicable. The survivors from the older generations are incapable of passing on the ...

The exhibition which the Museum of Modern Art has mounted this fall under the title, “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” is an event of unusual interest. 1 Even before one has entered the exhibition ...

It traces primitivism's basic precepts back to their authoritarian roots, reveals primitivist misconceptions about anarchism, capitalism and technology, shows how the corporate media have used ...

Is the 21st century a Dark Age, compared to the 20th? Is the culture of modernity and enlightenment slipping away, in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world? Is this really an age of neo-primitivism and ...

Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe, asserted promotion of ‘primitivism’ has brought conflict to the region since the 1970s. Jonas Marcolino Macuxí, the chief of the Macuxi tribe ...

In the sharp light of calls for the decolonising of museums and art galleries, art critic Alastair Sooke explores the history and relevance of the movement known as primitivism. Show more In 1984, the ...