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primitivist, n. and a.|ˈprɪmɪtɪvɪst|
[f. primitive a. + -ist.]
A. n. A believer in primitivism (sense 1); an advocate of the superiority of primitive customs or of primitive art; a person who uses obsolete methods or techniques.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to primitivism or to the primitive, esp. in art; irrational, opposing scientific development.
1926W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 204 So the Utopians are usually primitivists. They glorify the noble savage, who runs wild in woods. 1934Musical Q. Apr. 213 Three currents are left in the wake of the Modern Movement—Primitivist, Classicist, Popularist. 1949B. Willey in Ideas & Beliefs of Victorians (B.B.C.) 43 Perhaps as Rousseau and other primitivists had urged, civilisation was a monstrous aberration, and men were happier and better when fresh from the hands of God or Nature in some primeval Eden. 1952J. Summerson Sir John Soane 33, I mentioned earlier the ‘primitivist’ element which is so important a factor in the Soane style. 1961Times 7 June 17/3 All the rather flashy vitality and ‘primitivist’ imagery of his old manner have been discarded. 1975Nature 20 Mar. 219/1 Attacked by the new school of linguistics and cognitive epistemology as an ignorant primitivist, Skinner not only maintains his position but makes it more dogmatic. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 15 July 874/3 Nothing but primitive commonplaces: without laws, private property or rulers, the Indians ‘live according to nature’. It is a primitivists' fantasy world characterised by the observance of natural moral practices. 1977D. Watkin Morality & Archit. i. ii. 25 He [sc. Viollet-le-Duc] has..a related ‘primitivist’ notion that Roman and Renaissance architecture lost contact with the pure fount of Greek truth, and is thus morally and stylistically in questionable taste.
Hence primitiˈvistic a.
1943[see isolationistic a.]. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 210 Claudel can sing..not only ‘Georgica’, as did Vergil in a primitivistic mood. 1958H. R. Hitchcock Archit. 19th & 20th Cent. iv. 60 Soane's Dulwich Gallery of 1811–14, outside London, is likewise built of common brick and has similarly primitivistic detailing. 1959Encounter Nov. 76/1 A kind of atavism, an inability to think..in any but primitivistic terms. 1972M. Bradbury in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind III. xii. 343 Golding's universe is normally a-social or perhaps pre-social, primitivistic at its core and yet also conscious that it is only through knowing our primitivism that we will find our innocence. |