1st Edition
The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
List of Contributors
Part I: Circulations
1. Decentering Primitivism: Latin America, Cultural Authority, and the Modernist Writing of the European Primitive
Alejandro Mejías-López
2. Cosmopolitan Cubism, Provincial Paris
Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten
3. Los Pintores Íntegros: A Primitivist Rationale for Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
Joana Cunha Leal
4. Primitivising the Mural Either Side of the Atlantic: Discourse and Contingency in Joaquín Torres-García's Murals
Begoña Farré Torras
5. Benjamin Péret’s Remarks on Afro-Brazilian Religions. Primitivist Longings, Ethnocentric Critiques, Surrealist Ethnographies
Arthur Valle
Part II: Patterns and Paradoxes
6. Antropofagia, Primitivism and Anti-Primitivism
Rafael Cardoso
7. Troping the “Primitive” in Portuguese Narratives of Modernity and Colonialism
Mariana Pinto dos Santos
8. Returning to What Never Was: Primitivisms in Canto da Maya
Joana Brites (with the Contribution of Marta Barbosa Ribiero)
9. The Pastoral in Modern Catalan Art: Joaquim Sunyer and Joan Miró
M. Lluïsa Faxedas Brujats
10. Puppets, Child Art and an Illuminated Manuscript: Puppet Shows with Multilayers of Primitivism in 1920s Granada
Marta Soares
Biography
Joana Cunha Leal is Full Professor at the Art History Department and Senior Researcher at the Art History Institute of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities—Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Mariana Pinto dos Santos is Associate Researcher at the Art History Institute of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities—Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and invited lecturer at the Art History Department at NOVA.
