The Urban Primitive

In this alternative guide to Magick for Pagan city folk, the authors include practical recommendations not found anywhere else in a tone that is humorous and irreverent but full of serious information.

"Examines the depiction of primitive characters in naturalist and modernist texts, focusing on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen"--Provided by publisher.

The newly released, Urban + Primitive, The Art of Lyle Carbajal, is more than an impressivecollection; it's the exploration of the arts, perceptions, travels, and influences that have shaped theBrut Artist's life and great body of work. Lyle Carbajal-who's exhibited internationally-has explored the culture, people, and art of Seattle, the Bay area, Los Angeles, theSouthern United States, and all the way down to Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Heavily influencedby Outsider, Primitive, and Street Art, Carbajal says, "Everywhere I've lived, these are allmy people."The intricate connections to that statement are found throughout the pages in Urban + Primitive;beginning with the chapters, Artist Statement and Early Work, he adeptly takes you through theAnimals, the Sacred, the Regional People, then into Totems, Illustration, and then finally into thePlates. Interlaced with his exposition, you'll find an extensive collection of old and new works thatwill magnetize the viewer.He says, "The phrase, 'Urban + Primitive' captures, if somewhat roughly, the thoughts, lessons,and perceptions of how I view the world; I essentially divide the influence of these terms on mywork." He dives deep into these themes. After completing his recent sojourn of the US with hissix month immersion through Argentina, he was thinking of the book as the "chronicle [of] alifetime of creativity, ideas, and experiences..." But it's so much more than this. Lyle Carbajalpushes the envelope through each chapter, enriching the pages with history, extensive knowledge,his art, his observations, and his questions. Be prepared to be challenged to go deeper, and tothink outside the box. You'll want to, whether you're an artist or not.

Primitive Pictures explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with 'primitive' cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. The term that binds the two is the 'Primitive', referring both to cultures ostensibly existing outside of modern Time and also to a way of seeing the world via the lens. Asseka Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion, is legitimated by the primitive body in the first decades of the twentieth century. From the earliest research footage to popularized adventure footage, the film theory, the 'primitive' holds out the promise of a critical space that affirms modern, technological vision.

Modernization, Urbanization, and the Urban Crisis

In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture),Gone Primitivewill engage not just specialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American jewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an African mask. "A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what being good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, usually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and animated by some surprising sympathies."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative."--Scott L. Malcomson,Voice Literary Supplement

"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with subculture members, Body Style explores the subcultural body and its style within global culture. Body Style is the result of over eleven years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribalists, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skates, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies"--