Art, Primitive

Here are entered works discussing collectively the traditional art of the preliterate and nonindustrialized peoples of the world. General works on the art of indigenous peoples, not limited to a particular racial or ethnic group are entered under Indigenous art. Works on indigenous or primitive art from a specific place or specific people are entered under the heading for the art of that place or people, e.g. Art, Polynesian; Inca art.

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• Art

• Art, Prehistoric
• Folk art

• Idols and images

• Primitive art

• Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org)

• The Deceived (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c1990), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• The Book of Idols, by Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken (New York: Standard Publishing House, 1883), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gods and Devils of Mankind (c1897), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Whitney Davis (HTML at UC Press)

• Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (partial serial archives)

• Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1987), by Michael Owen Jones (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (partial serial archives)

• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• Guide to Art (1996; with other Bloomsbury references), by Shearer West (searchable JavaScript-dependent HTML at bloomsbury.com)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at Brown)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)

• Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1917), by Salomon Reinach, trans. by Florence Simmonds (PDF at djm.cc)

• Guggenheim International Award, 1958 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1958), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Guggenheim International Award, 1960 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Guggenheim International Award, 1964 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963), ed. by Lawrence Alloway
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org)

• Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF at getty.edu)

• Guide to Art (1996; with other Bloomsbury references), by Shearer West (searchable JavaScript-dependent HTML at bloomsbury.com)

• La Galleria dei Gonzaga, Venduta all'Inghilterra nel 1627-28 (in Italian; Milan: L. F. Cogliati, 1913), by Alessandro Luzio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Paths: Verse, Prose, Pictures, 1917-1918, ed. by Cyril W. Beaumont and Michael Sadleir, illust. by Anne Estelle Rice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Art of the Exposition: Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme and Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus (Gutenberg text)
• The Galleries of the Exposition: A Critical Review of the Paintings, Statuary and the Graphic Arts in The Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus (Gutenberg text)

• Crucial Instances, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• World So Wide (1951), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a New Ed. of the "Diary of an Ennuyée" (2 volumes in one; New York: Harper and brothers, 1834), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of Art Historians (electronic resource), ed. by Lee Sorensen (searchable HTML at dictionaryofarthistorians.org)

• Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1917), by Salomon Reinach, trans. by Florence Simmonds (PDF at djm.cc)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age (2006), by Hilary Ballon and Mariët Westermann (HTML at Rice University Press)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Smarthistory (electronic edition), ed. by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker (illustrated multimedia at smarthistory.org)
• The State of Scholarly Publishing in the History of Art and Architecture (2006), by Larry McGill (HTML at Rice University Press)
• Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.