The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

ISBN-13: 9781032409504 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Opis

Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms.

Spis treści

Introduction: Primitivism, a difficult legacy. Iberian and transatlantic perspectives Part I: Circulations 1. Decentering Primitivism: Latin America, Cultural Authority, and the Modernist Writing of the European Primitive 2. Cosmopolitan Cubism, Provincial Paris 3. Los Pintores Íntegros: a Primitivist Rationale for Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms 4. Primitivising the Mural Either Side of the Atlantic: Discourse and Contingency in Joaquín Torres-García's Murals 5. Benjamin Péret’s remarks on Afro-Brazilian religions. Primitivist longings, ethnocentric critiques, surrealist ethnographies Part II: Patterns and Paradoxes 6. Antropofagia, primitivism and anti-primitivism7. Troping the “primitive” in Portuguese narratives of modernity and colonialism8. Returning to what never was: primitivisms in Canto da Maya 9. The Pastoral in Modern Catalan Art: Joaquim Sunyer and Joan Miró 10. Puppets, child art, and an illuminated manuscript: Puppet shows with multilayers of primitivism in 1920s Granada

O autorze

Joana Cunha Leal is Associate Professor at the Art History Department and Senior Researcher at the Art History Institute of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities — Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Mariana Pinto dos Santos is Associate Researcher at the Art History Institute of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities — Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and invited lecturer at the Art History Department at NOVA.