The preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of Western taste and art /
Publisher's description: This book, the last to be completed by the author, is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically sup...
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London ; New York, N.Y. :
Phaidon,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Plato's preferences
- Interlude: progress or decline?
- The ascendancy of the sublime
- The pre-Raphaelite ideal
- The quest for spirituality
- The emancipation of formal values
- Interlude: new worlds and new myths
- The twentieth century: The lure of regression (1) ; The lure of regression (2)
- Primitive, in what sense?
- The study of antiquities.