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primitivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| Type of | natural state, state of nature, wild |
primitivism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | genre |
Examples of primitivism
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What Nauman practices is a form of psychic primitivism, or atavism if you prefer.
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Brian Sheppard asserts that anarcho-primitivism is not a form of anarchism at all.
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Its primitivism is as misleading as the primitivism of those modern artists.
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In the 1960s, film director Stanley Kubrick professed his opposition to primitivism.
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Zerzan is now best known as the foremost proponent of anarcho-primitivism.
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Important contemporary currents are anarcho-primitivism and social ecology.
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He was always loath to admit Gauguin's role in setting him on the road to primitivism.
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It shouldn't be for it implies a naive primitivism of the self-taught.
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As those two sacred cows revealed their barnyard primitivism she reassessed the evidence.
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- Crudeness: a wild or unrefined state
- A genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
- Primitivism is the belief that life was better or more moral during the early stages of mankind or among primitive peoples and has deteriorated with the growth of civilization. ...
- The belief that primitive peoples were nobler and less flawed than civilized peoples because they had not been subjected to the tainting influence of society. ...
- Originally part of an 18th-century reaction against the rationalism of the European Enlightenment-an approach that revalued as positive the less-developed cultures of the colonized peoples living outside of the European experience. ...
- Admiration and appropriation of Indigenous art as a source of inspiration for western art.
- Belief that nature provides truer and more healthful models than does culture. An example is the myth of the "noble savage."
- Twentieth-century compositions that imitate rhythms, melodies, modes, and techniques of music of indigenous people, or music created or produced naturally in a particular region with its complex rhythms, harmonies, melodies and forms
- "no longer;" degenerative; the belief that primitive or chronologically early civilizations are qualitatively superior to contemporary civilization (Baudet, p. 34).
