primitive culture
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“What glass beads are to the savage, buttons and pockets are to the civilized,” Rudofsky writes, intending no disrespect to primitive culture.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2019
All the same, it was in Tahiti that Gauguin would make the work that opened the way for a later generation of artists to draw connections between "primitive" culture and the most advanced artistic practices.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Trocadéro, they were presented as ageless, unchanging, primitive objects, evidence of an ageless, unchanging, primitive culture.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The good and the beautiful, the esthetic and the spiritual, ever intertwined in the story of primitive culture.
From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
But, without enumerating further instances of these savage dream-traditions, which are closely allied with the animistic theories of primitive culture, we would turn to those plants which modern European folk-lore has connected with dreamland.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
