Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

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

List of contents

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-Primitivism 7. Troping the "Primitive" in Portuguese Narratives of Modernity and Colonialism 8. 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

About the author

Joana Cunha Leal is Full 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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Joana (Nova University of Lisbon Cunha Leal
• Assisted by: Joana Cunha Leal (Editor), Mariana Pinto dos Santos (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032409504
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240950-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Portugal, Ethnic Studies, Latin America, European History, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of art / art & design styles, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Colonialism and imperialism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal