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

by Frances S. Connelly

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271013052
• ISBN13: 9780271013053
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"