He covers living by faith: Brethren missionaries in the modern world, "So far from his land as China:" the primitivism of Watchman Nee, "To the uttermost part:" Reginald Sturt and the evangelization of the Mongols, primitivism and politics: the echoes of service mission to Tibet, and missionary primitivism versus Chinese modernity: fallout from the withdrawal from China.

Lastly, the author buries primitivism by showing that both authoritarian, hierarchical societies and egalitarian, anti-authoritarian ones can develop whether or not, for example, agriculture is adopted as a mode of production (Chapter XII).

Coming to prominence in 1970s and 1980s, eco-anarchism, like primitivism, questions the dominant industrial values that underpin the degradation of humanity and nature.

Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

The book also recounts the long history of the Museum of Modern Art's institutional ambivalence toward contemporary artists of color, which reached its zenith in its 1984 exhibition "Primitivism" in Twentieth Century Art.

His aesthetic, referencing the likes of Franco-Russian Modernist Marc Chagall, demonstrates a myriad of styles and movements, from surrealism to primitivism, to a naAA-f sense of the idyll.

Chapter 2, "Beyond Bongos in Montmartre: Lydia Cabrera and Alejo Carpentier Imagine Blackness," offers an interesting counterpoint between them and avant-garde French artists seduced by diverse modalities of "primitivism." A1929 article by Carpentier in the emblematic journal Documents (published in Paris between 1929 and 1931, in which musicians, artists, philosophers, and writers experienced their own first contact with surrealism through creative manipulations of the "real") is the point of departure for Maguire's argument about the role of "music" in producing a "primitive Other." Afro-Cuban sounds and rhythms were an important subject of interest in other authors' works.

From Combinatorialism to Primitivism, JENNIFER WANG

I'm a self-confessed guitar obsessive - when not working on my American Primitivism fingerstyle I'm busy polishing my headstock over pictures of vintage Gibson Super 400s (like the one Elvis had in the 68 Comeback Special - yes indeedy).

Shortly thereafter, in September of 1984, the MoMA presented an ambitious survey exhibition titled "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art, which included 150 modern art works and some 200 tribal artifacts.

By doing so, it reveals the artwork's vulnerability as an object that can alternate between states of hypermodernity and primitivism or shift from test case to relic over time--a transitory monument, an apparition that will eventually entirely disappear, unconscious and fluid.

Porta Romana features a wide array of lighting, furniture and mirrors with designs based on 20thcentury primitivism art.