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primitivism|ˈprɪmɪtɪvɪz(ə)m|
[See -ism.]
1. Adherence to or practice of that which is primitive. Also, a belief in the desirability of a ‘return to nature’; an exaltation of simplicity or of irrationalism; the practice of primitive art.
1861Neale Notes on Dalmatia, Croatia, etc. 137 Had he not provocation enough,..to confirm him in his primitivism. 1896Westm. Gaz. 14 May 3/1 This country, in which primitivism—if I may be permitted the expression—and progressivism are sometimes so oddly mixed. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 257 To introduce a salutary element of primitivism into our civilized and industrialized way of life. 1938Burlington Mag. June 302/2 Far more primitivism has been attributed to him [sc. Rousseau] than is actually justified. 1939J. Charlot Art from Mayans to Disney xi. 86 Political cartoons reminiscent of Monnier and Grandville, which are not flavoured at all by the ‘primitivism’ of his [sc. Posada's] later work. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era ix. 95 What formal primitivism, after Beethoven! 1950E. H. Gombrich Story of Art xxvii. 440 This Primitivism advocated by Gauguin became perhaps an even more lasting influence on modern art than either Van Gogh's Expressionism or Cézanne's way to Cubism. 1951Essays in Crit. I. 97 The term ‘Back to Nature’ covers the many and varied forms of primitivism. 1952J. Summerson Sir John Soane 17 Soane's ‘primitivism’ ..is formalized at Bentley Priory (1798). 1958H. R. Hitchcock Archit. in 19th & 20th Cent. 450/2 ‘Primitivism’ in painting and sculpture has been of recurrent importance since the days of the Fauves and the Expressionists; a comparable primitivism in architecture has been much rarer, except for Gaudí. 1969Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 10/4 He [sc. Thomas Mann] puts the German character on the operating table..: the loneliness, the smug provincialism, the Wagnerian primitivism, the eroticism. 1976Survey Summer-Autumn 107 Khrushchev was only comprehensible if one began by accepting his Marxist primitivism.
2. Short for Primitive Methodism: see primitive A. 10, and cf. B. 3.
1907Daily News 28 May 8 Closing Day of Primitive Methodist Centenary... The Rev. Jabez Bell described ‘Primitivism’ as neither painfully poor nor rascally rich. |