Primitive Art in Civilized Places

By Sally Price

Book Overview

What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226680649
• ISBN13: 9780226680644
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Will change the way you think about "natural history"!

Sally Price makes a great point in this small, readable book -- Westerners place so-called "primitive" art (art from non-Western countries) into a different category than "Western art." This is why one must usually visit a natural history museum to see non-Western art! The "primitive" artist is nameless and supposedly representative of his/her entire society. Could we say the same of Western artists? Price discusses these and similar intriguing questions about why Western societies view non-Western art as closer to nature than to culture.