The Death of Authentic Primitive Art: And Other Tales of Progress

by Shelly Errington and University of California Press

Book Overview

In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. At the same time, the penetration of nation-states, the tourist industry, and transnational corporations into regions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212118
• ISBN13: 9780520212114
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"