The trouble with ‘primitivism’

The trouble with ‘primitivism’ in Iberian, Latin American and other semi-peripheral contexts

 

Joana Cunha Leal (ed.) | orcid logo 16px http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9141-7255
Mariana Pinto dos Santos (ed.) | orcid logo 16px https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7289-1875
Noemi de Haro García (ed.) | orcid logo 16px https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7429-1646
Petra Šarin (ed.) | orcid logo 16px https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-914X

 

Access to Document:
Open access 2025 eBook-IM8_FULL

 

Abstract:

This book results from, and expands with further contributions, the international conference The Trouble With Primitivism: Uses of the Past in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms, which closed the Project “Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary” (PIM) [PTDC/ART-HIS/29837/2017] and that took place at NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, on 26-28 May 2022. A wide range of authors discuss the uses of the past and the myths of origins implicated in the troublesome concept of “primitivism” and its operability in the Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American and other semi-peripheral contexts. 

 

Keywords:

Primitivism, Imperialism, Periphery, Belatedeness, Visual Culture, Politics, Propaganda

 

Language: English
Place of publication: Lisbon, Portugal
Publisher: Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa –  School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory
Number of pages: 223
ISBN: 978-989-35191-3-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34619/yzur-78hf
Year: 2025
Edition: 1st

 

How to cite: 
Leal, J. C., Pinto dos Santos, M., García, N. H., & Šarin, P. (Eds.). (2025). The trouble with ‘primitivism’ in Iberian, Latin American and other semi-peripheral contexts. IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST. https://doi.org/10.34619/yzur-78hf