"This is a much needed, important collection-a goldmine of sources for scholars and students. The texts articulate the key Primitivist aesthetic discourses of t

On art in the early 20th century

Return to the elemental - Search for the primitive - Abstraction and empathy - Picasso and Negro Art - Matisse or Vlaminck - Problems of form - Exchange of tech

This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes