Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Preface XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Discovery, 1905–1918
7. Introduction 25
8. Maurice de Vlaminck: Discovery of African Art, 1906 27
9. André Derain: Early Encounter with African Art, 1906 29
10. Henri Matisse: First Encounter with African Art, 1906 31
11. Pablo Picasso: Discovery of African Art, 1906–1907 33
12. Gertrude Stein: Matisse and Picasso and African Art, 1906–1907 35
13. Guillaume Apollinaire: On Museums, 1909 36
14. Gelett Burgess: The Wild Men of Paris, 1910 38
15. Roger Fry: The Art of the Bushmen, 1910 41
16. Franz Marc: Letter to August Macke, 1911 47
17. August Macke: Masks, 1912 48
18. Emil Nolde: The Artistic Expressions of Primitive Peoples, 1912 51
19. Elie Faure: The Tropics, 1912 54
20. André Warnod: Decorative Arts and Artistic Curiosities, 1912 59
21. Vladimir Markov: Negro Art, 1913 61
22. Karl Scheffler: Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Berlin, 1913 67
23. Emil Waldmann: Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Dresden, 1914 69
24. Marius de Zayas: Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art, 1914 70
25. Charles H. Caffin: Root of Art in Negro Carvings, 1914 73
26. Kazimir Malevich: The Art of the Savage and Its Principles, 1915 75
27. Carl Einstein: African Sculpture, 1915 77
28. Marius de Zayas: African Negro Art and Modern Art, 1916 92
29. Hermann Bahr: Expressionism, 1916 100
30. Edgar L. Hewett: America's Archaeological Heritage, 1916 102
31. Guillaume Apollinare: Concerning the Art of the Blacks, 1917 107
32. Tristan Tzara: Note 6 on African Art, 1917 111
33. Josef Čapek: Negro Sculpture, 1918 113
34. Part II: New Attitudes and Awarenesses, 1919–1940
35. Introduction 119
36. T. S. Eliot War: Paint and Feathers, 1919 121
37. Henri Clouzot and André Level: Savage Art, 1919 123
38. Paul Guillaume: A New Aesthetic, 1919 125
39. Florent Fels (Editor): Opinions On Negro Art, 1920 129
40. André Salmon: Negro Art, 1920 133
41. Roger Fry: Negro Sculpture at the Chelsea Book Club, 1920 145
42. Félix Fénéon (Editor): Will Arts from Remote Places Be Admitted into The Louvre? 1920 148
43. Walter Pach: The Art of the American Indian, 1920 167
44. Marsden Hartley: Red Man Ceremonials, 1920 174
45. Carlo Anti: The Sculpture of the African Negroes, 1923 180
46. Florent Fels: Melanian Art at the Pavillon de Marsan, 1923 184
47. Alain Locke: Note on African Art, 1924 187
48. Henri Clouzot and André Level: The Lesson of an Exhibition, 1925 193
49. Alain Locke: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts, 1925 197
50. Georges Salles: Reflections on Negro Art, 1927 202
51. Christian Zervos: Oceanic Works of Art and Today's Problems, 1929 205
52. Paul Éluard: Savage Art, 1929 209
53. Waldemar George: The Twilight of the Idols, 1930 212
54. G. H. Luquet: Primitive Art, 1930 219
55. Georges Bataille: Primitive Art, 1930 224
56. John Sloan and Oliver Lafarge: Introduction to American Indian Art, 1931 231
57. Eckart von Sydow: The Meaning of Primitive Art, 1932 234
58. Romare Bearden: The Negro Artist and Modern Art, 1934 238
59. James Johnson Sweeney: The Art of Negro Africa, 1935 242
60. Alain Locke: African Art, 1935 246
61. John D. Graham: Primitive Art and Picasso, 1937 248
62. James A. Porter: The Negro Artist and Racial Bias, 1937 252
63. Part III. The Ascendance of Primitivism, 1941–1983
64. Introduction 259
65. Frederic H. Douglas and René D'Harnoncourt: Indian Art of the United States, 1941 261
66. Henry Moore: Primitive Art, 1941 267
67. Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko: The Portrait and the Modern Artist, 1943 272
68. Ralph Linton and Paul S.Wingert: Arts of the South Seas, 1946 275
69. Barnett Newman: Art of the South Seas, 1946 277
70. Barnett Newman: Northwest Coast Indian Painting, 1946 282
71. D. H. Kahnweiler: Negro Art and Cubism, 1948 284
72. Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions, 1951 292
73. Jean Laude: French Painting and Negro Art, 1968 299
74. Part IV: The Museum of Modern Art's 1984: Primitivism Exhibition and Its Aftermath
75. Introduction 313
76. William Rubin: Modernist Primitivism, 1984 315
77. Thomas McEvilley: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, 1984 335
78. James Clifford: Histories of the Tribal and the Modern, 1985 351
79. Kirkvarnedoe: On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show, 1985 369
80. Hal Foster: The "Primitive" Unconscious of Modern Art, 1985 384
81. Thomas McEvilley: The Global Issue, 1990 396
82. Lucy Lippard: Naming, 1990 402
83. Sieglinde Lemke: Primitivist Modernism, 1998 409
84. Coda: Quotations from Artists and Writers 415
85. Chronology of Events, Exhibitions, and Publications 441
86. Selected Bibliography 453
87. Index 469