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


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This text argues that primitive art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the 20th-century, but that at the century's end it has died. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. The author argues that the construction of the primitive in the 19th and 20th centuries must be understood as a product of discourses of progress. Ranging through the worlds of museums, art theorists, boutiques, tourism and world events, the text traces a historical account of the transformations of meanings of primitive art in this century. The author also explores a collection of public sites in Mexico and Indonesia; a museum of anthropology; a cultural theme park; an airport; and a 9th-century Buddhist monument, to show how the idea of the primitive can be used in the interests of promoting nationalism and economic development.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Preface A Note on Punctuation and the Primitive INTRODUCTION TWO CENTURIES OF PROGRESS PART ONE THE DEATH OF AUTHENTIC PRIMITIVE ART 1. Three Ways to Tell the History of (Primitive) Art 2. What Became Authentic Primitive Art? 3· The Universality of Art as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 4· The Death of Authentic Primitive Art 5· Authenticity, Primitivism, and Art Revisited PART TWO AND OTHER TALES OF PROGRESS: NATIONALISM, MODERNIZATION, DEVELOPMENT 6. Nationalizing the Pre-Columbian Past in Mexico and the United States 7· The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese 8. Making Progress on Borobudur Afterword Notes References Index Illustration Credits

About the Author :
Shelly Errington is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm (1989), and coeditor of Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia (1990).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520210950
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 335
  • Sub Title: And Other Tales of Progress
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520210956
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 726 gr


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