Prehistories of the Future
The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism

Elazar Barkan (Edited by), Ronald Bush (Edited by)

9780804724869

Paperback / softback, published 1 December 1995

464 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.64 kg

"This is an unusually rich, subtle, and rewarding collection that brings varied approaches to a crucial topic in modern cultural history. . . . The essays recognize the multi-faceted and complicated nature of the fin-de-siècle conundrum of modernism and primitivism."—Michael P. Steinberg, Cornell University

A Stanford University Press classic.