Cult of the Ego : The Self in Modern Literature

Literature & Fiction

Goodheart, Eugene

History & Criticism

Univ. of Chicago

Essays in Linguistics

Reference

Joseph H Greenberg

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Culture and Faith

Richard Kroner

What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like Doonesbury—Price explores the cultural arrogance implicit in Westerners' appropriation of non-Western art. "[Price] presents a literary collage of the Western attitude to other cultures, and in particular to the visual art of the Third and Fourth Worlds. . . . Her book is not about works of 'primitive art' as such, but about the Western construction 'Primitive Art.' It is a critique of Western ignorance and arrogance: ignorance about other cultures and arrogance towards them."—Jeremy Coote, Times Literary Supplement "The book is infuriating, entertaining, and inspirational, leaving one feeling less able than before to pass judgment on 'known' genres of art, but feeling more confident for that."—Joel Smith, San Francisco Review of Books "[A] witty, but scholarly, indictment of the whole primitive-art business, from cargo to curator. And because she employs sarcasm as well as pedagogy, Price's book will probably forever deprive the reader of the warm fuzzies he usually gets standing before the display cases at the local ethnographic museum."—Newsweek

Primitive Art in Civilized Places

Arts & Photography

Price, Sally

Traces the history of the railroads from its invention and describes its role in the Civil War and how it shaped America

American Railroads

Engineering & Transportation

Stover,John f

Transportation

Burden Of Egypt, The

Wilson, John R.

First edition. After stating that L. Stephen's 1832-1904 "writings are of greater interest than his life and that to understand Stephen is to understand Evangelical morality and Victorian rationalism...," the author proceeds to demonstrate this by giving first a biography with elements of psychobiography, but then interpreting this in the light of Victorian intellectual and moral issues in the process also giving a survey of Victorian intellectuality . Readers of To the Lighthouse are already somewhat acquainted with Stephen in the figure of Mr. Ramsay, Virginia Wolff's portrait or caricature of her father, and those consulting the DNB use a work of which he was the first editor. Review copy with printed slip and handwritten note laid in. Some soiling of dust jacket. xvi, 432 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. large 8vo..

Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian

Annan, Noel

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