The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best. Since ...

“The egg is not the error of the chicken,” says Jean Ipousteguy. What a sculptor makes, he implies, is what he must make, and if that urge defines a primitive ...

"the architectural establishment continues to ignore indigenous building cultures and the human value of what they represent. For example, traditional building and urban geometry in sub-Saharan Africa ...