Primitivism and twentieth-century art: a documentary history

Introduction / Jack Flam

Pt. I. Discovery - 1905-1918

Discovery of African Art - 1906 / Maurice De Vlaminck

Early Encounter with African Art - 1906 / Andre Derain

First Encounter with African Art - 1906 / Henri Matisse

Discovery of African Art - 1906-1907 / Pablo Picasso

Matisse and Picasso and African Art - 1906-1907 / Gertrude Stein

On Museums - 1909 / Guillaume Apollinaire

Wild Men of Paris - 1910 / Gelett Burgess

Art of the Bushmen - 1910 / Roger Fry

Letter to August Macke - 1911 / Franz Marc

Masks - 1912 / August Macke

Artistic Expressions of Primitive Peoples - 1912 / Emil Nolde

Tropics - 1912 / Elie Faure

Decorative Arts and Artistic Curiosities - 1912 / Andre Warnod

Negro Art - 1913 / Vladimir Markov

Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Berlin - 1913 / Karl Scheffler

Picasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Dresden - 1914 / Emil Waldmann

Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art - 1914 / Marius De Zayas

Root of Art in Negro Carvings - 1914 / Charles H. Caffin

Art of the Savage and its Principles - 1915 / Kazimir Malevich

African Sculpture - 1915 / Carl Einstein

African Negro Art and Modern Art - 1916 / Marius De Zayas

Expressionism - 1916 / Hermann Bahr

America's Archaeological Heritage - 1916 / Edgar L. Hewett

Concerning the Art of the Blacks - 1917 / Guillaume Apollinaire

Note 6 on African Art - 1917 / Tristan Tzara

Negro Sculpture - 1918 / Josef Capek

Pt. II. New Attitudes and Awarenesses - 1919-1940

War-Paint and Feathers - 1919 / T. S. Eliot

Savage Art - 1919 / Henri Clouzot and Andre Level

New Aesthetic - 1919 / Paul Guillaume

Opinions on Negro Art - 1920 / Edited by Florent Fels

Negro Art - 1920 / Andre Salmon

Negro Sculpture at the Chelsea Book Club - 1920 / Roger Fry

Will Arts from Remote Places be Admitted into the Louvre? - 1920 / Edited by Felix Feneon

Art of the American Indian - 1920 / Walter Pach

Red Man Ceremonials - 1920 / Marsden Hartley

Sculpture of the African Negroes - 1923 / Carlo Anti

Melanian Art at the Pavillon De Marsan - 1923 / Florent Fels

Note on African Art - 1924 / Alain Locke

Lesson of an Exhibition - 1925 / Henri Clouzot and Andre Level

Legacy of the Ancestral Arts - 1925 / Alain Locke

Reflections on Negro Art - 1927 / Georges Salles

Oceanic Works of Art and Today's Problems - 1929 / Christian Zervos

Savage Art - 1929 / Paul Eluard

Twilight of the Idols - 1930 / Waldemar George

Primitive Art - 1930 / G. H. Luquet

Primitive Art - 1930 / Georges Bataille

Introduction to American Indian Art - 1931 / John Sloan and Oliver Lafarge

Meaning of Primitive Art - 1932 / Eckart Von Sydow

Negro Artist and Modern Art - 1934 / Romare Bearden

Art of Negro Africa - 1935 / James Johnson Sweeney

African Art - 1935 / Alain Locke

Primitive Art and Picasso - 1937 / John D. Graham

Negro Artist and Racial Bias - 1937 / James A. Porter

Pt. III. Ascendance of Primitivism - 1941-1983

Indian Art of the United States - 1941 / Frederic H. Douglas and Rene D'Harnoncourt

Primitive Art - 1941 / Henry Moore

Portrait and the Modern Artist - 1943 / Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko

Arts of the South Seas - 1946 / Ralph Linton and Paul S. Wingert

Art of the South Seas - 1946 / Barnett Newman

Northwest Coast Indian Painting - 1946 / Barnett Newman

Negro Art and Cubism - 1948 / D. H. Kahnweiler

Anticultural Positions - 1951 / Jean Dubuffet

French Painting and Negro Art - 1968 / Jean Laude

Pt. IV. Museum of Modern Art's 1984 Primitivism Exhibition and its Aftermath

Modernist Primitivism - 1984 / William Rubin

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief - 1984 / Thomas McEvilley

Histories of the Tribal and the Modern - 1985 / James Clifford

On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show - 1985 / Kirk Varnedoe

"Primitive" Unconscious of Modern Art - 1985 / Hal Foster

Global Issue - 1990 / Thomas McEvilley

Naming - 1990 / Lucy Lippard

Primitivist Modernism - 1998 / Sieglinde Lemke

Coda: Quotations from Artists and Writers

Chronology of Events, Exhibitions, and Publications.