Primitivism

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Primitivism

• H. G. Wells (1866-1946), The Time Machine (1895)
  Eloi vs. Morlocks
• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Heart of Darkness
  (1899)
• W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), The Souls of Black
  Folk (1903)
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
• Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
• Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
• Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), founder of the
  Ballets Russes
• Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian dancer
• Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American dancer
• Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), American dancer
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Igor Stravinsky, Le Jeu du Rapt (Ritual of
Abduction) from The Rite of Spring
(1913), Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra,
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
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Still from The Time Machine (2001), dir. Simon
Wells (great-grandson of H. G.)
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Inscription from H. G. Wells to Joseph Conrad, in
gift copy of Tales of Space and Time
(1900) Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)
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The Congo Free State in 1890
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Grebo Mask (19th Century, Ivory Coast or Liberia)
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Paul Gauguin, Parau Parau (Whispered Words, 1892)
Yale University Art Gallery
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Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (1888)
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Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre (The Joy of
Life, 1905-06)
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907)
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bathers at Moritzburg
(1909)
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Wassily Kandinsky, Angel of the Last Judgment
(1911)
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Loie Fuller (1862-1928)
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)
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Danse Africaine The low beating of the
tom-toms, The slow beating of the
tom-toms, Lowslow Slowlow Stirs your
blood. Dance!
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
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T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
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Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
(1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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Conrads Certificate of Competency as Master in
the Merchant Service Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
1882
1904
1918
Bust by Jacob Epstein
All photos courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library