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 ...

THE Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other “school” in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, ...

Extracted from: New Left review (London) September-October 1990, pages 95-115. During the inter war years (1918-1930) before the intellectual radicalism of the 1930s took over, the idea of the ...

THE anthropologist, when confronted with some of the more extreme pronouncements of æsthetic judgment on the primitive artist, was at one time perhaps a little too apt to regard them as unwarranted ...

To attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

The meanings of "primitive" and "art" -- The functions of art in primitive societies -- Iconography and symbolism -- The artist's life and work -- Where does it all come from : the psychology of art - ...

ABERDEEN – A bonus activity during this weekend’s Aberdeen Pilgrimage will be a sneak peak at an Aberdeen Main Street-led art gallery, located at 202 E Commerce St. Visitors can view local art during ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...