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List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction by Jack FlamPART 1. DISCOVERY, 1905–18Maurice de VlaminckDiscovery of African Art, 1906André DerainEarly Encounter with African Art, 1906Henri MatisseFirst Encounter with African Art, 1906Pablo PicassoDiscovery of African Art, 1906–7Gertrude SteinMatisse and Picasso and African Art, 1906–7Guillaume ApollinaireOn Museums, 1909Gelett BurgessThe Wild Men of Paris, 1910Roger FryThe Art of the Bushmen, 1910Franz MarcLetter to Auguste Macke, 1911August MackeMasks, 1912Emil NoldeThe Artistic Expressions of Primitive Peoples, 1912Elie Faure The Tropics, 1912André WarnodDecorative Arts and Artistic Curiosities, 1912Vladimir MarkovNegro Art, 1913Karl SchefflerPicasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Berlin, 1913Emil WaldmannPicasso and African Sculpture Exhibition, Dresden, 1914Marius de ZayasStatuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art, 1914Charles H. CaffinRoot of Art in Negro Carvings, 1914Kazimir MalevichThe Art of the Savage and Its Principles, 1915Carl EinsteinAfrican Sculpture, 1915Marius de ZayasAfrican Negro Art and Modern Art, 1916Hermann BahrExpressionism, 1916Edgar L. HewettAmerica’s Archaelogical Heritage, 1916Guillaume ApollinaireConcerning the Art of the Blacks, 1917Tristan TzaraNote 6 on African Art, 1917Josef CapekNegro Sculpture, 1918PART 2. NEW ATTITUDES AND AWARENESS, 1919–40T. S. EliotWar-Paint and Feathers, 1919Henri Clouzot and André LevelSavage Art, 1919Paul GuillaumeA New Aesthetic, 1919Florent Fels (editor)Opinions on Negro Art, 1920André SalmonNegro Art, 1920Roger FryNegro Sculpture at the Chelsea Book Club, 1920Félix Fénéon (editor)Will Arts from Remote Places Be Admitted into the Louvre? 1920Walter PachThe Art of the American Indian, 1920Marsden HartleyRed Man Ceremonials, 1920Carlo AntiThe Sculpture of the African Negroes, 1923Florent FelsNegro Art at the Pavillon de Marsan, 1923Alain LockeNote on African Art, 1924Henri Clouzot and André LevelThe Lesson of an Exhibition, 1925Alain LockeLegacy of the Ancestral Arts, 1925Georges SallesReflections on Negro Art, 1927Christian ZervosOceanic Works of Art and Today’s Problems, 1929Paul ÉluardSavage Art, 1929Waldemar GeorgeThe Twilight of the Idols, 1930G. H. LuquetPrimitive Art, 1930Georges BataillePrimitive Art, 1930John Sloan and Oliver LaFargeIntroduction to American Indian Art, 1931Eckart von SydowThe Meaning of Primitive Art, 1932Romare BeardenThe Negro Artist and Modern Art, 1934James Johnson SweeneyThe Art of Negro Africa, 1935 Alain LockeAfrican Art, 1935John D. GrahamPrimitive Art and Picasso, 1937James A. PorterThe Negro Artist and Racial Bias, 1937PART 3. THE ASCENDANCE OF PRIMITIVISM, 1941–83Frederic H. Douglas and René d’HarnoncourtIndian Art of the United States, 1941Henry MoorePrimitive Art, 1941Adolph Gottlieb and Mark RothkoThe Portrait and the Modern Artist, 1943Ralph Linton and Paul S. WingertArts of the South Seas, 1946Barnett NewmanArt of the South Seas, 1946Barnett NewmanForeword, Northwest Coast Indian Painting, 1946D. H. KahnweilerNegro Art and Cubism, 1948Jean DubuffetAnticultural Positions, 1951Jean LaudeFrench Painting and Negro Art, 1968PART 4. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART'S 1984 PRIMITIVISM SHOW AND ITS AFTERMATHWilliam RubinModernist Primitivism, 1984Thomas McEvilleyDoctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, 1984James CliffordHistories of the Tribal and the Modern, 1985Kirk VarnedoeOn the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show, 1985Hal FosterThe "Primitive" Unconscious of Modern Art, 1985Thomas McEvilleyThe Global Issue, 1990Lucy LippardNaming, 1990Sieglinde LemkePrimitivist Modernism, 1998Coda: Quotations from Artists and WritersChronology of Events, Exhibitions, and PublicationsBibliographyIndex