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“The sacrifice of the wholeness of things to the cult of pure form is a dangerous habit of our culture. It amounts to a rejection of the wholeness of life. After fifty years of living with the dynamic relationship between primitive and Modern objects, are we not ready yet to begin to undersand the real intentions of the native traditions, to let those silenced cultures speak to us at least? An investigation that really did so would show us immensely more about the possibilities of life that Picasso and others vaguely sensed and were attracted to than does this endless discussion if spiritual propinquity in usages of parallel lines. It would show us more about the “world-historical” importance of the relationship between primitive and Modern and their ability to relate to one another without autistic self-absorption.”
—Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief: “Primitivism” in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art - Thomas McEvilley, 1992 (via clareleetaylor)
