CUL233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paul Gauguin, 1956 Summer Olympics, Constitution Of Australia
21 Aug 2018
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Egyptian carvings and the fact that it is part of a drying race. Primitivism: reflective of a global trend, primitivism: a term used by the western avant- garde. Picasso etc. ) were looking for sources of inspiration by which to break the tradition of western art. African art found in ethnographical museums and collected it from anthropologists: what they appreciated was what they termed primitivism", saw themselves as appreciating this art, but were looking through a lens of violence categorisation (lesser human, e. g. Use of african mask in picasso"s art: primitivism is based on social-darwinist views that placed black people as less sophisticated and lesser. Popular in australia and used to justify colonisation: violence radicalised narratives that are used to justify possession. Aboriginal person is the nearest to an animal head . The australian is blood-thirsty while at the same time cowardly and weak .
