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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8340992" data-attributes="member: 82106">Nonsense. This usage of 'primitive', actually 'primitivism' is a very specific art historical term denoting a specific artistic style. Now, obviously people have used it to denote the artwork of non-western/non-industrial peoples working in a traditional style, but this use is highly controversial and usually denigrated, and considered offensive! Even Wikipedia notes this in the article which comes up when you search for 'primitive art', in the first sentence. The point being, there are vastly better terms to use, and serious editors in this day and age working in, for example the RPG industry, probably should be getting clued on that real soon now, like years ago.Anyway, this kind of usage of the term 'primitive art' is not really descriptive of anything at all. Much of what would fall under that definition is extremely fine art and craftwork of a sophistication and quality that is the equal of anything produced anywhere on Earth at any time period. It tells us nothing except the prejudices of the word's user in that context. This is why the author objects to strongly, and I am 100% on his side. Kim Mohan seems like a decent guy, but he goofed up on that one. I don't know if he's just old and out of touch, or simply had a bad editorial day, but I'm guessing it won't happen again!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8340992, member: 82106"] Nonsense. This usage of 'primitive', actually 'primitiv[B]ism[/B]' is a very specific art historical term denoting a specific artistic style. Now, obviously people have used it to denote the artwork of non-western/non-industrial peoples working in a traditional style, but this use is [B]highly controversial and usually denigrated, and considered offensive![/B] Even Wikipedia notes this in the article which comes up when you search for 'primitive art', in the first sentence. The point being, there are vastly better terms to use, and serious editors in this day and age working in, for example the RPG industry, probably should be getting clued on that real soon now, like years ago. Anyway, this kind of usage of the term 'primitive art' is not really descriptive of anything at all. Much of what would fall under that definition is extremely fine art and craftwork of a sophistication and quality that is the equal of anything produced anywhere on Earth at any time period. It tells us nothing except the prejudices of the word's user in that context. This is why the author objects to strongly, and I am 100% on his side. Kim Mohan seems like a decent guy, but he goofed up on that one. I don't know if he's just old and out of touch, or simply had a bad editorial day, but I'm guessing it won't happen again! [/QUOTE]

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