primitivism in art

Presents new interpretations of American folk art and traces the careers of numerous artists and examines their style and characteristics.

Discusses naive painting as an art form and presents 72 reproductions of the work of 60 representative artists.

Contains illustrated essays by fifteen scholars in which they explore the influence of tribal arts on twentieth-century sculptors and painters; defining the parameters of modernist primitivism, tracing the arrival and dissemination of Africa, Oceanic, American Indian, and Eskimo art in the West; and looking at primitivism in the works of various artists.

Color portfolio of twenty-five of the works of folk artist Grandma Moses, with a short commentary on her life and work which she began in earnest in the later years of her life when she was in her seventies.

Contains photographic reproductions of the artist's work and presents critical commentary on the artist and his work.