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The wide selection of Nadelman items alone — perhaps the peak of Kirstein’s often erratic taste in the visual arts — is worth the visit to this gathering: modernism meets primitivism meets classicism.
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An instruction on joining us in our vision for the future, a return to primitivism.
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Can looked back to psychedelia and forward to punk primitivism and the steadiness of dance music
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The Left has contempt for nationalism, seeing in it intellectual and moral primitivism at best, and the road to fascism at worst.
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Sonic Youth fans will be pleased to hear the elements of scuzz noise and high-art primitivism of that band injected into attitudinal riffs with sing-along charm of Talon's song.
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This and the political and military primitivism of some adversaries (e.g., the Islamic State) are reshaping the environment in which airpower operates, and the purposes of this power.
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A lot of students learn about history through art, and the narrative of anything related to Africa and Polynesia and indigenous America is still laden with this notion of primitivism.
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Curtis, meanwhile, was inclined to invent scenarios, expunging inconvenient details in order to emphasize a concept of primitivism.
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First Known Use of primitivism
1861
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