The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907

In this work on what constitutes "primitive" art, Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic expression.

• | By (Author): Frances S. Connelly (University of Missouri-Kansas City) (Author)
• | Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 1994
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0271013052
• | ISBN-13: 9780271013053