Flam, Jack D.; Deutch, Miriam

Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art

List of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1(26) Jack Flam PART I. DISCOVERY 1905--1918 Discovery of African Art 1906 27(2) Maurice De Vlaminck Early Encounter with African Art 1906 29(2) Andre Derain First Encounter with African Art 1906 31(2) Henri Matisse Discovery of African Art 1906--1907 33(2) Pablo Picasso Matisse and Picasso and African Art 1906-1907 35(1) Gertrude Stein On Museums 1909 36(2) Guillaume Apollinaire The Wild Men of Paris 1910 38(3) Gelett Burgess The Art of the Bushmen 1910 41(6) Roger Fry Letter to August Macke 1911 47(1) Franz Marc Masks 1912 48(3) August Macke The Artistic Expressions of Primitive Peoples 1912 51(3) Emil Nolde The Tropics 1912 54(5) Elie Faure Decorative Arts and Artistic Curiosities 1912 59(2) Andre Warnod Negro Art 1913 61(6) Vladimir Markov Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Berlin 1913 67(2) Karl Scheffler Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Dresden 1914 69(1) Emil Waldmann Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art 1914 70(3) Marius De Zayas Root of Art in Negro Carvings 1914 73(2) Charles H. Caffin The Art of the Savage and Its Principles 1915 75(2) Kazimir Malevich African Sculpture 1915 77(15) Carl Einstein African Negro Art and Modern Art 1916 92(8) Marius De Zayas Expressionism 1916 100(2) Hermann Bahr America's Archaeological Heritage 1916 102(5) Edgar L. Hewett Concerning the Art of the Blacks 1917 107(4) Guillaume Apollinaire Note 6 on African Art 1917 111(2) Tristan Tzara Negro Sculpture 1918 113(4) Josef Capek PART II. NEW ATTITUDES AND AWARENESSES 1919--1940 117(140) War-Paint and Feathers 1919 121(2) T. S. Eliot Savage Art 1919 123(2) Henri Clouzot Andre Level A New Aesthetic 1919 125(4) Paul Guillaume Opinions on Negro Art 1920 129(4) Florent Fels Negro Art 1920 133(12) Andre Salmon Negro Sculpture at the Chelsea Book Club 1920 145(3) Roger Fry Will Arts from Remote Places be Admitted into the Louvre? 1920 148(19) Felix Feneon The Art of the American Indian 1920 167(7) Walter Pach Red Man Ceremonials 1920 174(6) Marsden Hartley The Sculpture of the African Negroes 1923 180(4) Carlo Anti Melanian Art at the Pavillon de Marsan 1923 184(3) Florent Fels Note on African Art 1924 187(6) Alain Locke The Lesson of an Exhibition 1925 193(4) Henri Clouzot Andre Level Legacy of the Ancestral Arts 1925 197(5) Alain Locke Reflections on Negro Art 1927 202(3) Georges Salles Oceanic Works of Art and Today's Problems 1929 205(4) Christian Zervos Savage Art 1929 209(3) Paul Eluard The Twilight of the Idols 1930 212(7) Waldemar George Primitive Art 1930 219(5) G. H. Luquet Primitive Art 1930 224(7) Georges Bataille Introduction to American Indian Art 1931 231(3) John Sloan Oliver Lafarge The Meaning of Primitive Art 1932 234(4) Eckart Von Sydow The Negro Artist and Modern Art 1934 238(4) Romare Bearden The Art of Negro Africa 1935 242(4) James Johnson Sweeney African Art 1935 246(2) Alain Locke Primitive Art and Picasso 1937 248(4) John D. Graham The Negro Artist and Racial Bias 1937 252(5) James A. Porter PART III. THE ASCENDANCE OF PRIMITIVISM 1941--1983 257(54) Indian Art of the United States 1941 261(6) Frederic H. Douglas Rene D'Harnoncourt Primitive Art 1941 267(5) Henry Moore The Portrait and the Modern Artist 1943 272(3) Adolph Gottlieb Mark Rothko Arts of the South Seas 1946 275(2) Ralph Linton Paul S. Wingert Art of the South Seas 1946 277(5) Barnett Newman Northwest Coast Indian Painting 1946 282(2) Barnett Newman Negro Art and Cubism 1948 284(8) D. H. Kahnweiler Anticultural Positions 1951 292(7) Jean Dubuffet French Painting and Negro Art 1968 299(12) Jean Laude PART IV. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART'S 1984 PRIMITIVISM EXHIBITION AND ITS AFTERMATH 311(104) Modernist Primitivism 1984 315(20) William Rubin Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief 1984 335(16) Thomas McEvilley Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 1985 351(18) James Clifford On The Claims and Critics of the ``Primitivism'' Show 1985 369(15) Kirk Varnedoe The ``Primitive'' Unconscious of Modern Art 1985 384(12) Hal Foster The Global Issue 1990 396(6) Thomas McEvilley Naming 1990 402(7) Lucy Lippard Primitivist Modernism 1998 409(6) Sieglinde Lemke Coda: Quotations from Artists and Writers 415(26) Chronology of Events, Exhibitions, and Publications 441(12) Bibliography 453(16) Index 469