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The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907

The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907

Connelly, Frances S.

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 0271018275
ISBN13: 9780271018270
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Sep 15 1998
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native American imagery. The drawbacks of such an approach have become increasingly apparent, the most problematic being its perpetuation of the notion that certain traditions are indeed primitive. Frances Connelly argues that primitive art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic expression. She contends that, instead of the paintings of Gauguin, the publication of Vico's New Science in 1725 lies much closer to the origins of primitivism because it first articulated the essential framework of ideas through which Europeans would understand primitive expression.

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