id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dbllj5j3lvguri2ppeiimlqc4e Mariana Aguirre Ardengo Soffici's The Room of the Mannequins: Primitivism, Classicism and French Modernism 2017 30 .pdf application/pdf 11139 1032 63 Ardengo Soffici's engagement with African art was mediated by French Keywords: Ardengo Soffici, Primitivism, Modernism, Cubism, Colonialism, Given Ardengo Soffici's key role in the development of Italian art, it is necessary to Soffici's contemporaneous writings about African art and Cubism, the frescoes bring to Mannequins belies Soffici's rejection of non-European primitivism in his art criticism, and referenced Soffici's debt to French art rather than Italian colonialism in Africa, during the Soffici's art criticism, Cubism, and primitivism Soffici was in Paris when French artists "discovered" African sources at the same time, this account of Cubism considers African art's importance for the French Soffici, "Paul Cézanne", in: Vita d'arte, 8 June 1908; "Henri Rousseau", in La Voce, 15 September 1910; and "Un libro su African sculpture for the development of Italian art, but also that of Cubism, a choice Africans in modern Italian art developed well into late Fascism and did not lead to ./cache/work_dbllj5j3lvguri2ppeiimlqc4e.pdf ./txt/work_dbllj5j3lvguri2ppeiimlqc4e.txt