Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

Introduction. Metamodern studies of African art: traditions, innovations and interventions / Moyo Okediji -- 1. On the invention of "traditional" art / John Picton -- 2. Sensiotics or the study of the ...

African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art’s sake ...

Excerpted from: Show (New York) September 1963, pages 86-89, 119-121. Wardwell is giving advice to those who want to collect African art and other 'primitive' arts--forgeries and fakes, appreciation ...