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• n  a wild or unrefined state
• n  a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children

• Tut-tutting about American primitivism mixes easily with that other sport, eye rolling about religious primitivism.
• The Sheltering Sky, with its mixture of emotional nausea, intellectual despair and desert primitivism, will come close to justifying their hopes.
• The Museum of Modern Art traces the sources of primitivism Of all the questions posed by modern art, none are more intriguing than what it took, and why, from tribal.

• crudeness
• crudity
• primitiveness
• rudeness

News & Articles

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• Guitarist Glenn Jones has story to share
  Guitarist Glenn Jones, who plays in the 'American Primitivism' style, will perform at 9 p.m. Monday at the Black Sparrow, 223 Main St.
  July 12, 2013 - Journal & Courier

Quotes

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• Bill Leonard in Dallas Baptist Standard
  In Baptist Ways: A History, Bill Leonard noted, "Biblicism led many Baptists to adhere to a strenuous 'primitivism,' a belief that the true church in any era is the one that best replicates the New Testament church."
• Mladjan Dinkic in Jamaica Observer
  It is high time to ban the Radicals,said Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic, a top G17 Plus official. "The Radicals are chauvinists, they spread hatred and primitivism. We have to stop that."