By Michael Bell

First released in 1972, this books examines the topic of primitivism throughout the examine of the paintings of a couple of significant writers, together with D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. It appears to be like on the number of definitions and makes use of of primitivism and the way the belief has replaced through the years in addition to with each one author. In doing so, it really is argued that primitivism denotes, or arises from, a feeling of hindrance in civilization and it truly is born of the interaction among the civilized self and the will to reject or rework it.


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