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Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism - Cultural Sitings
Elazar Barkan
Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism - Cultural Sitings
Elazar Barkan
Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.
472 pages, 98 half-tones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 1, 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780804723909 |
Publishers | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Dimensions | 162 × 240 × 33 mm · 876 g |
Editor | Barkan, Elazar |
Editor | Bush, Ronald |