Future Primitive
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Binding: Hardback
Published: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2013
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Future Primitive’ brings together works by 19 artists from Australia and New Zealand to explore a renewed engagement with primitivism in contemporary art. Their works perform a kind of time travel, as they conjoin modernist forms with atavistic, totemic or tribal motifs, and create speculative worlds from images and ideas drawn from multiple cultures and times. The word ‘primitive’ has often been used in the West to describe whatever its present lacks – for example, after World War I the Dadaists embraced the ‘primitive’ as a counter to the shortcomings of European ‘civilization’. Today a similar move may be taking place. Primitivism – stripped of negative racial or cultural identifications – is again a magnet of attraction for artists. While they speculate on possible futures at a time of deep uncertainty, many artists have turned to using basic materials and process, or to intense expressions of life using ceremony, ritual, the body and its senses. This 103 page full colour exhibition catalogue features essays by Anne Stephen, Andrew McNamara and Helen Hughes. Edited by Linda Michael Published in 2013 by Heide Museum of Modern Art
Author: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Binding: Hardback
Published: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2013
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Future Primitive’ brings together works by 19 artists from Australia and New Zealand to explore a renewed engagement with primitivism in contemporary art. Their works perform a kind of time travel, as they conjoin modernist forms with atavistic, totemic or tribal motifs, and create speculative worlds from images and ideas drawn from multiple cultures and times. The word ‘primitive’ has often been used in the West to describe whatever its present lacks – for example, after World War I the Dadaists embraced the ‘primitive’ as a counter to the shortcomings of European ‘civilization’. Today a similar move may be taking place. Primitivism – stripped of negative racial or cultural identifications – is again a magnet of attraction for artists. While they speculate on possible futures at a time of deep uncertainty, many artists have turned to using basic materials and process, or to intense expressions of life using ceremony, ritual, the body and its senses. This 103 page full colour exhibition catalogue features essays by Anne Stephen, Andrew McNamara and Helen Hughes. Edited by Linda Michael Published in 2013 by Heide Museum of Modern Art