| It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research. |
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| This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity. |
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| Peter Gabriel's world sound intensifies the atmosphere of generic primitivism, although bowls and other props identify the setting as Africa. |
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| The memorial thus incarnates an assumption of African primitivism that suggests that the intended audience is in fact Western tourists. |
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| The ensuing effect is the nation's return to the tribalist primitivism of the past. |
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| This, according to environmental primitivism, is the perfect, aboriginal state of nature. |
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| To add to the novel's air of primitivism, the editors reproduce a page of the sloppy original manuscript. |
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| The contrast here between Rembrandt's tender humanity and Picasso's gross primitivism is striking. |
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| Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America. |
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| The world of the 1920s was cynical and syncopated, the ballet full of athleticism, primitivism and jazz. |
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| This notion of human evolution as being a linear trudge from primitivism to perfection is totally wrong. |
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| Where aesthetic register meets fauvism, abstraction, primitivism and expressionism. |
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| In the early 1950s he pioneered the woozy primitivism which is now called New Age. |
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| The exotic primitivism portrayed on this label suggests that the remedy holds the key to nature, power, primal well-being. |
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| The primitivism of the ninth century ought to be no match for the progress of the twenty-first. |
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| Influenced by cubism and primitivism, his style was always marked by his love and defence of Basque culture. |
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| It comes in various versions for relaxation in true 21st century style, coupling originality and primitivism. |
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| This short period laid the foundation for introducing primitivism into the European cosmopolitan avant-garde at the turn of the century. |
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| Many people are angry about the primitivism and falling into line of commercial programmes. |
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| The literary primitivism of the 1920s, of which McKay was a part, largely expired with the decade, and his novels were little read in succeeding years. |
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| In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, Dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists. |
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| This conceptual version of ornament can be regarded either as an extreme case of primitivism or, just as convincingly, as the ultimate in sophistication. |
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| For example, Australia's Peter Griffen uses complex layering, decorative patterning, primitivism, and vibrant color to evoke Australia's Western Desert and Aboriginal culture. |
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| Contrary to the fantasies of romantic primitivism, civilisation and development have made our species more knowledgeable and sensitive about the workings of nature. |
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| Such now familiar terms as Orientalism and primitivism, while they mark the beginning of a consensus, are by no means completely defined or delimited. |
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| In the 1970s, film director Stanley Kubrick professed his opposition to primitivism. |
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| In so doing, they are moving away from the tough-guy primitivism which for too long has been held up among North American management as an admirable quality. |
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| Instead of trading in clichés of primitivism, the Houston show brings together a sprawling, sophisticated, largely urban selection of works from a continent better known for poverty and hardship. |
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| America is a pastoral society that has the freedom of primitivism, because it is neither materialist nor manufacturing and it has an abundancy of land. |
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| His mind is so logical and orderly that I was puzzled on learning that he is fascinated by spiritualism, which seemed to be a willful plunge into primitivism by a man who felt too antiseptically intellectual. |
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| The space of Dominican-American letters is exoticism, tropicalism, and the modalities of primitivism like abjection and dirty realism. |
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| They employed techniques as varied as primitivism, hyperrealism, grotesque, and abstraction, but they shared a common distaste for the canons of Socialist Realism. |
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| Other interesting animals are the Cuban crocodile and the Cuban alligator gar, researchers considering the latter to be a living fossil due to its primitivism and body shape. |
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| Through their specific engagement with western formalist concepts and First Nations traditions, Yuxweluptun's works challenge conceptions of modernism and primitivism that inform many of the written histories of art. |
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| Resistance to globalization in different cultures takes the form of antiglobalism, ethnification, fundamentalism, and primitivism. |
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| In the 18th century the debates about primitivism centered around the examples of the people of Scotland as often as the American Indians. |
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| Hobbes' hard primitivism may have been as venerable as the tradition of soft primitivism, but his use of it was new. |
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| Most probably man was by then introduced to his first breakthrough into civilization: the discovery of fire which tamed his nature and moved him from primitivism into urbanity. |
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| Modernism's stress on freedom of expression, experimentation, radicalism, and primitivism disregards conventional expectations. |
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| This paper then defends a modal primitivist theory, incompatibility primitivism, which takes as its primitive notion that of incompatibility between properties and relations. |
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| Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. |
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