Primitivism and the other. History of art and cultural geography |
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Authors: | Jean-François Staszak |
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Institution: | (1) University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The article advocates an articulation of cultural geography and art history, and in this perspective focuses on the analysis
of the primitivist movement and particularly on Gauguin's work and personal itinerary. Primitivism introduced artefacts of
‘primitive’ people into the history of Western art and signalled a change in the relationship between the West and the ‘Other’
and ‘Elsewhere’. This reversal of values has a major geographical dimension. Primitivism manifests the contradiction-rife
colonial ideology, but can also challenge colonization. Tourism, which is, in the case of Tahiti, directly linked to Gauguin
and to his myth, inherited a lot from primitivism, in terms of hopes and ambiguities. Conversely, primitivism casts light
on geographical features of these places, instituted as ‘Elsewheres‘ by the West, and visited, even transformed by painters,
colonizers and tourists.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | art colonization cultural geography Gauguin otherness painting primitivism representation Tahiti tourism |
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