Gone primitive : savage intellects, modern lives / Marianna Torgovnick.
Author
- Torgovnick, Marianna 1949-
Edition
- Pbk. ed.
Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press 1991, ©1990
Physical description
xi, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
ISBN
- 0226808327
- 9780226808321
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
- 1. Going primitive : Defining the primitive / reimagining modernity ; Taking Tarzan seriously -- 2. Making primitive objects high art : "But is it art?" ; The politics of Roger Fry's Vision and design ; The many obsessions of Michel Leiris ; William Rubin and the dynamics of primitivism -- 3. Engendering the primitive : Traveling with Conrad ; "Oh, Mexico!": D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent -- 4. Mapping the site of transcendental homelessness : Adventurers ; Entering Freud's study ; Remembering with Levi-Strauss -- 5. Gone primitive : Physicality.
Subject
Genre
- Bibliography
- Illustrated
- text
Language
- English
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