02906oam 22006494a 450 991052486660332120251105181315.00-8018-0049-81-4214-3563-2(CKB)4100000010460843(OCoLC)1122724796(MdBmJHUP)muse78504(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88964(MiAaPQ)EBC29139040(Au-PeEL)EBL29139040(oapen)doab88964(OCoLC)1549521437(EXLCZ)99410000001046084319990225d1956 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIshmaelJames Baird1st ed.Johns Hopkins University Press1 online resource (xxviii, 445 pages )Originally published in 1956.1-4214-3564-0 1-4214-3565-9 Includes bibliographical references.Originally published in 1956. In Ishmael, Professor James Baird responds to the increasing secularization of Western civilization and the creation of what he calls "authentic primitivism." For Baird, the aesthetic austerity of Protestantism undermined the structure of symbols created by Catholicism. In the absence of a meaningful structure of cultural authority in Western civilization, "primary art" took on a quasi-religious role by connecting humans to a transcendent being. Ishmael describes a new system of art, beginning around 1850, that supplanted Christian symbolism. Baird examines writers who helped to create a modern authentic primitivism, with emphasis on Herman Melville, whom Baird sees as a locus of change for the cultural significance of primary art. Baird provides a social history and biography of writers who participated in the primary art movement from 1850 to 1950Symbolism in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01759341Religionfast(OCoLC)fst01093763Primitivism in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01076466Literature, Modernfast(OCoLC)fst01000172ReligionSymbolism in literaturePrimitivism in literatureLiterature, ModernHistory and criticismCriticism, interpretation, etc.Symbolism in literature.Religion.Primitivism in literature.Literature, Modern.Religion.Symbolism in literature.Primitivism in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Baird James465056MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524866603321Ishmael2642851UNINA