Magazines - Tribal Art Autumn 2011
Cycladic Idols: Primitivism in Antiquity
By Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, editor in chief for Europe of Tribal Art magazine.
Introduction In Vézelay, France, an exhibition currently on view at the Musée Zervos sheds light on the role that Christian Zervos, the founder of Cahiers d’Art, played in the rediscovery of Cycladic idols. Did not these fascinating sculptures express an aesthetic that is simultaneously primitive and highly developed just as Oceanic and African art do? That, at any rate, was what artists, dealers, and collectors alike were soon to believe. |