| Description |
xi, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- 1. Going Primitive -- 1. Defining the Primitive/Reimagining Modernity -- 2. Taking Tarzan Seriously -- 2. Making Primitive Objects High Art -- 3. "But Is It Art ?" -- 4. The Politics of Roger Fry's Vision and Design -- 5. The Many Obsessions of Michael Leiris -- 6. William Rubin and the Dynamics of Primitivism -- 3. Engendering the Primitive -- 7. Traveling with Conrad -- 8. "Oh, Mexico!": D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent -- 4. Mapping the Site of Transcendental Homelessness -- 9. Adventures -- 10. Entering Freud's Study -- 11. Remembering With Levi-Strauss -- 5. Gone Primitive -- 12. Physicality -- Epilogue: Past, Present, and Future -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index |
| Summary |
The unfinished frescoes by Antonio Pisanello in the Ducal Palace in Mantua have intrigued and puzzled art historians since their rediscovery in the 1960s. In this extensive discussion, Woods-Marsden (art history, UCLA) identifies the frescoes as a coherent cycle depicting an episode from the prose Lancelot, the 13th century French Arthurian romance. Dating the cycle c. 1447-48, she argues for Lodovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua, as commissioner, and suggests that the work documents this outstanding patron's early intentions and ambitions. Examining and crossing a range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, and art) and texts (photography, travel literature, television programs, and museum exhibitions), Torgovnick (English, Duke U.) shows how Western ideas of the primitive have served as a vehicle to control societies outside the West and to suppress women and minorities within it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| Analysis |
Social anthropology |
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Social anthropology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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Arts -- Psychological aspects.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Popular culture.
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Primitivism in art.
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Primitivism in literature.
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| LC no. |
89020375 |
| ISBN |
0226808319 (alk. paper) |
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0226808327 (paperback) |
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