Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main
expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms.
Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges
connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and
with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the
manifestations of primitivism, including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This
book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with
their imperial pasts, which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism, as well as
the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships.
The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of
primitivist imagery.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Iberian studies, Latin American
studies, colonialism, and modernism.