The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress
Anthropologist Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art, invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the 20th century, has died. Errington's dissection of discourses about progress and primitivism is a lively introduction to anthropological studies of art institutions and a dramatic contribution to the growing field of cultural studies. 106 illustrations
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1998
xxvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520210950, 9780520212114, 0520210956, 0520212118
38930550
Two centuries of progress
The death of authentic primitive art
Three ways to tell the history of (primitive) art
What became authentic primitive art?
The universality of art as a self-fulfilling prophecy
The death of authentic primitive art
Authenticity, primitivism, and art revisited
And other tales of progress: nationalism, modernization, development
Nationalizing the pre-Columbian past in Mexico and the United States
The cosmic theme park of the Javanese
Making progress on Borobudur