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

by Shelly Errington and University of California Press

In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. At the same time, the penetration of nation-states, the tourist industry, and transnational corporations into regions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212118
• ISBN13: 9780520212114
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"