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What does primitivism mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or quality of being primitive.
  2. The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization.
  3. Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.
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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.
Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
The ensuing effect is the nation's return to the tribalist primitivism of the past.
The memorial thus incarnates an assumption of African primitivism that suggests that the intended audience is in fact Western tourists.
The world of the 1920s was cynical and syncopated, the ballet full of athleticism, primitivism and jazz.
Where aesthetic register meets fauvism, abstraction, primitivism and expressionism.

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