by Price (Author)
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 research and even comic strips like Doonesbury--Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. A witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive art business. --Peter Plagens, Newsweek Prices unfolds a fascinating history of the many 20th-century expeditions in search of exotic culture. --Michael W. Perri, Utne Reader
Format: Paperback
Pages: 155
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 01 Feb 1991
ISBN 10: 0226680649
ISBN 13: 9780226680644