| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 33 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the author's unpublished ms. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 301. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Strength and vulnerability of naive art. -- Early art - art among primitive peoples. -- Art remote from history and style. -- Folk art and regional creativity. -- Folk art, limners, and the art of the naives in the U.S.A. -- Rousseau and the great reality. -- French overture. -- The great expansion. -- The peasant naives. -- The resurrection of archaic gods. -- Excursus on naive sculpture. -- Landscape and regionalism. -- Portraiture and self-portraits of the naives. -- The religious and the fantastic. -- Eros in naive painting. -- The last chapter. -- Biographies and photographs of the artists. |
| Subject |
Primitivism in art.
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| ISBN |
0070052573 |
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