Primitivism and twentieth-century art : a documentary history. / Jack D Flam.

Discovery of African art, 1906 / Maurice de Vlaminck
Early encounters with African art, 1906 / André Derain
First encounter with African art, 1906 / Henri Matisse
Discovery of African art, 1906-1907 / Pablo Picasso
Matisse and Picasso and African art, 1906-1907 / Gertrude Stein
On museums, 1909 / Guillaume Apollinaire
The wild men of Paris, 1910 / Gelett Burgess
The art of the bushmen, 1910 / Roger Fry
Letter to August Macke, 1911 / Franz Marc
Masks, 1912 / August Macke
The artistic expressions of primitive peoples, 1912 / Emil Nolde
The tropics, 1912 / Elie Faure
Decorative arts and artistic curiosities, 1912 / André Warnod
Negro art, 1913 / Vladimir Markov
Picasso and African sculpture exhibition, Berlin, 1913 / Karl Scheffler
Picasso and African sculpture exhibition, Dresden, 1914 / Emil Waldmann
Statuary in wood by African savages : the root of modern art, 1914 / Marius de Zayas
Root of art in Negro carvings, 1914 / Charles H. Caffin
The art of the savage and its principles, 1915 / Kazimir Malevich
African sculpture, 1915 / Carl Einstein
African Negro art and modern art, 1916 / Marius de Zayas
Expressionism, 1916 / Hermann Bahr
America's archaeological heritage, 1916 / Edgar L. Hewett
Concerning the art of the Blacks, 1917 / Guillaume Apollinaire
Note 6 on African art, 1917 / Tristan Tzara
Negro sculpture, 1918 / Josef Čapek
War-paint and feathers, 1919 / T.S. Eliot
Savage art, 1919 / Henri Clouzot and André Level
A new aesthetic, 1919 / Paul Guillaume
Opinions on Negro art, 1920 / Florent Fels, editor
Negro art, 1920 / André Salmon
Negro sculpture at the Chelsea book club, 1920 / Roger Fry
Will arts from remote places be admitted into the Louvre?, 1920 / Félix Fénéon, editor
The art of the American Indian, 1920 / Walter Pach
Red man ceremonials, 1920 / Marsden Hartley
The sculpture of the African Negroes, 1923 / Carlo Anti
Melanian art at the Pavillon de Marsan, 1923 / Florent Fels
Note on African art, 1924 / Alain Locke
The lesson of an exhibition, 1925 / Henri Clouzot and André Level
Legacy of the ancestral arts, 1925 / Alain Locke
Reflections on Negro art, 1927 / Georges Salles
Oceanic works of art and today's problems, 1929 / Christian Zervos
Savage art, 1929 / Paul Éluard
The twilight of the idols, 1930 / Waldemar George
Primitive art, 1930 / G.H. Luquet
Primitive art, 1930 / Georges Bataille
Introduction to American Indian art, 1931 / John Sloan and Oliver LaFarge
The meaning of primitive art, 1932 / Eckart von Sydow
The Negro artist and modern art, 1934 / Romare Bearden
The art of Negro Africa, 1935 / James Johnson Sweeney
African art, 1935 / Alain Locke
Primitive art and Picasso, 1937 / John D. Graham
The Negro artist and racial bias, 1937 / James A. Porter
Indian art of the United States, 1941 / Frederic H. Douglas and Rene D'Harnoncourt
Primitive art, 1941 / Henry Moore
The portrait and the modern artist, 1943 / Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko
Arts of the South Seas, 1946 / Ralph Linton and Paul S. Wingert
Art of the South Seas, 1946 / Barnett Newman
Northwest coast Indian painting, 1946 / Barnett Newman
Negro art and cubism, 1948 / D.H. Kahnweiler
Anticultural positions, 1951 / Jean Dubuffet
French painting and Negro art, 1968 / Jean Laude
Modernist primitivism, 1984 / William Rubin
Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, 1984 / Thomas McEvilley
Histories of the tribal and the modern, 1985 / James Clifford
On the claims and critics of the "primitivism" show, 1985 / Kirk Varnedoe
The "primitive" unconscious of modern art, 1985 / Hal Foster
The global issue, 1990 / Thomas McEvilley
Naming, 1990 / Lucy Lippard
Primitivist modernism, 1998 / Sieglinde Lemke

Publisher's description: This book is the first to bring together texts documenting the encounter between Western artists and writers and what has historically been called primitive art--the traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America. Beginning with the "discovery" of that art by European artists and writers early in the twentieth century, this anthology charts the evolving pictorial responses, artistic aspirations, aesthetic theories, and cultural debates that have developed from this encounter. Written by artists, literary figures, collectors, museum curators, and cultural critics, these essays--most of them never before translated or reprinted--show the dazzling range of issues elicited by the confrontation with primitive arts and cultures. Primitivism designates not a specific movement or group of artists, but a persuasive notion crucial to twentieth-century art and modern thinking generally. Because the encounter between the West and primitive art took place at the height of Western colonialism, a number of racial and political issues come into play, either overtly or implicitly, in writings about both the art and the people who produced it. The contributions to this volume speak to each other in provocative ways, giving a unique overview of those issues. Jack Flam provides an introduction to the book and brief outlines for each of its four sections. Also included are a coda of quotations from artists and critics from throughout the century a chronology of events, exhibitions, and publications an extensive bibliography and over forty illustrations.