…in mask making and carving and fetishes, we see early in the 20th century as concern for the great revolution in art. So Picasso went to West Africa and brought these masks back, and other people brought back primitive art. And it was seen to be more…

…The baths are very colorful. I was there today and someone sat down next to me and I noticed that they looked like a middle Picasso. They had one eye this way and one eye this way and their nose over here and it was like a fellini movie crossed with…

…towards psychedelics. The whole of the 20th century is characterized by this nostalgia for the archaic. It begins when Picasso brings african masks to Paris in 1910. It even begins earlier than that when impressionism deconstructs the photographic realism…

…I don't, but I've only been here for six months. We don't yet have a stein, a Hemingway, a Faulkner a Joyce a Picasso. An established one no but I'm not saying there isn't a nascent one well they're here somewhere selling sandwiches on the square or…

…the earlier sense the straight people all went off and became very weird together, you know with their golden Mercedes and their Picasso Ceramics and all that. The freaks all went off and became strange alone, each apart in our own way because community…

…way to analytical cubism and all the cubism arose as a result of the fascination of a few artists with primitive African masks, Picasso and his circle and when they brought this stuff back to Paris in 1905 through 15 nobody had ever seen this kind of…

…in mask making and carving and fetishes, we see early in the 20th century as concern for the great revolution in art. So Picasso went to West Africa and brought these masks back and other people brought back primitive art and it was seen to be more…

…the earlier sense the straight people all went off and became very weird together, you know with their golden Mercedes and their Picasso Ceramics and all that. The freaks all went off and became strange alone, each apart in our own way because community…

…people have been feeling what I've been feeling, thinking what I've been feeling for at least 20 000 years and this impacted on Picasso, it impacted on miró it impacted on Klee, it impacted on Marcel Duchamp all of these people and much of the bad boy…

…that the entire cultural impulse of the 20th century, beginning with Freud and Jung discovering the unconscious beginning with Picasso dragging back primitive West African masks to Paris and inserting them into his paintings, dada, pataphysics, jazz, abstract…

…futurism, space flight all of these things, and these are. Well it's interesting to see, for instance how modernism was invented by Picasso in some tellings of the story but he couldn't do it until he had studied all these primitive masks from the coast…

…people have been feeling what I've been feeling, thinking what I've been feeling for at least 20 000 years and this impacted on Picasso it impacted on miró, it impacted on Klee, it impacted on Marcel Duchamp. All of these people and much of the bad boy…

…that constipated European stuff. And then the 20th century is experiencing experienced as chaos, you know. Cubism is created when Picasso brings African masks to Paris and begins painting them. Freud announces that we are not just Christian ladies and…

…broken up. Modernism is a form of primitivism. Strangely enough, the people who created modernism, people like marcel Duchamp and Picasso and the surrealists they were tremendously influenced, in the case of Picasso, by African art, masks and sculpture, stuff…

…people who created modernism, people like marcel Duchamp and Picasso and the surrealists they were tremendously influenced, in the case of Picasso, by African art, masks and sculpture, stuff that had never been seen in Paris in 1905 through 15, and everybody…

…class structure, all that constipated European stuff and then the 20th century is experienced as chaos. Cubism is created when Picasso brings African masks to Paris and begins painting them. Freud announces that we are not just Christian Ladies and gentlemen.…

…way to analytical cubism and all that cubism arose as a result of the fascination of a few artists with primitive African masks Picasso and his circle and when they brought this stuff back to Paris in 1905 through 15, nobody had ever seen this kind of…

…has been stripped of depth before it ever reaches you even to be offered for your perception. What do you think about when Picasso brought in cubism and changed the entire direction of art away from realism and into a different view of seeing things from…