First International Symposium on Primitivism

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Categories:: Humanities and sociocultural

Keywords:: Arte no-occidental; primitivismo

The Research Centre for Primitivism and Primitive Art (CIAP, <a href="http://www.upf.edu/ciap/en/" target="_blank">http://www.upf.edu/ciap/en/</a>) organizes the First International Symposium on Primitivism, which aims to shed new light on a debate that has been given little attention in the field of Humanities, and which focuses on the relationship between Art and the Primitive. This concept has been loaded with ideological content within Western Art History and Theory, and is at the heart of the study of this encounter. To what extent has the Primitive influenced Western art, and how have indigenous cultures, from different parts of the world, modified their aesthetic language and cultural traits since their contact with Western aesthetic values?

 There are diferent areas of interest in this study: We highlight the appropriation of the Primitive by Western culture since the first collections of Primitive Art, which were created on Colonial expeditions, as well as the acquired interest of avant-garde artists in the aesthetic forms of Primitive cultures. An important line of enquiry is how different cultural practices have been assumed, modified or rejected, according to the historical and cultural contexts, and to what extent these cultural constructions have endured an interesting – and unequal – aestheticizing process in the Western world. These considerations confer particular significance on the reception of the Primitive at exhibitions and other means of dissemination throughout Modern history. The re-elaboration of the Primitive in contemporary Art is one of the foundations of Western artistic modernity.

 We are also interested in the various mechanisms of absorption of Western culture by Primitive societies coming into contact with the Western world, and how far the intrusion of Western cultural traits has affected their traditional material and symbolical culture. The processes of desecration of the world and the culture, as well as the transformations of the circuits of commerce are fundamental for an understanding of the aesthetification of the Primitive Arts.

 The disciplinary foundation of these studies is in History of Art and Art Theory. However, it is necessarily interdisciplinary, to the extent that we are interested in understanding its imbrications with aesthetics, culture, society, and politics.

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11/15/2013

Program

Diptico_Simposio14Nov.pdf (1 MBytes)

11/15/2013

CHANGES IN THE PROGRAM!

PROGRAM_ABSTRACTS14nov.pdf (773 KBytes)

07/29/2013

Extended the deadline for the call for papers, Septermber 30th

Event place

Dates Event local time

May '13

6^th

22:00 Abstracts submission opening

May '13

6^th

22:00 Abstracts submission opening (Categoría general)

Sep '13

30^th

21:59 Abstracts submission closing

Sep '13

30^th

21:59 Abstracts submission closing (Categoría general)

Sep '13

30^th

22:00 Registration opens

Nov '13

14^th

22:59 Registration closes

Nov '13

18^th

09:00 Starting date

Nov '13

19^th

21:00 Closing date

Speakers

Estela Ocampo

Estela Ocampo (Director of the University Institute of Culture at the Pompeu Fabra University
Jonathan King

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
Georges Petitjean

Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands

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