San Antonio College Library

The crucial influence of the tribal arts--especially those of Africa and Oceania--on modern painters and sculptors has long been recognized. Yet surprisingly, this book is the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of the subject in half a century, and the first ever to illustrate and discuss tribal works collected by vanguard artists. In this visually stunning and intellectually provocative work, nineteen heavily illustrated essays by fifteen scholars...

Book devoted to the English naive tradition from the eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century.

"This magnificent volume is the first work to document definitively the rich and varied popular arts of the Western hemisphere--from the Eskimo print makers of Alaska to the painters of Mexico and Brazil and the muralists of Haiti."--Jacket.

A study to discover if the creative mind at work tends to adopt the patterns of primative consciousness by searching the myths, & mysteries of anthropology, psychology and aesthetics.

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.