Question

Georges Bataille (“buh-TYE”) reviewed a Georges-Henri Luquet (“loo-KAY”) book titled for this theme, as described in Hal Foster’s Brutal Aesthetics. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this theme explored in modern art in a 1938 monograph by Louise Bourgeois’s husband Robert Goldwater. The exhibit Magiciens de la terre responded to a controversial 1984 MoMA exhibition titled for this theme.
ANSWER: primitivism [or word forms of primitive or primitivist; accept Primitive Art; accept Primitivism in Modern Art; accept L’art primitif]
[10e] Goldwater described a “romantic primitivism” in the art of this Post-Impressionist artist, who painted When Will You Marry? and Spirit of the Dead Watching.
ANSWER: Paul Gauguin [or Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin]
[10m] Goldwater describes how a Gauguin exhibit caused members of this movement to develop an “emotional primitivism.” The Dance Around the Golden Calf was painted by a member of this movement, which popularized the linocut medium.
ANSWER: Die Brücke [or The Bridge; prompt on Expressionism or Expressionist art or Expressionismus]
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