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Gauguin
- In Paul Gauguin: Beginnings
…as an element of “primitivism” in his own nature and artistic vision.
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Harlem Renaissance
- In Harlem Renaissance: The background
…profoundly affected by trends—such as primitivism—in European and white American artistic circles. Modernist primitivism was inspired partly by Freudian psychology, but it tended to extol “primitive” peoples as enjoying a more direct relationship to the natural world and to elemental human desires than “overcivilized” whites. The keys to artistic revolution…
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