"Josef \u010Capek\u00B4s writings from between 1914 and 1920 present a distinctive conception of primitivism, which was, beginning in the early twentieth century, of fundamental importance for the development of modern trends in the fine arts, in connection with the essential change in understanding the term %22art%22. Two manuscript version of the essay Um\u011Bn\u00ED p\u0159\u00EDrodn\u00EDch n\u00E1rod\u016F (The art of primitive peoples) from 1914 to 1916 and the article %22Socha\u0159stv\u00ED \u010Dernoch\u016F%22 (Negro sculpture) from 1918 are amongst the first European critical attempts to interpret ethnic art. \u010Capek presents the %22art of the savages%22 (divo\u0161sk\u00E9 um\u011Bn\u00ED) as fully fledged art, and he tries to analyse its principles of expression. He compares them to current trends in art. The essays from the volume Nejskromn\u011Bj\u0161\u00ED um\u011Bn\u00ED (The humblest art, 1919\u201320), which consider other dimensions of primitivism, present a particular definition and expansion of the term %22art%22. In contrast to academic virtuosity, \u010Capek here emphasizes values of hitherto peripheral and unacknowledged areas of artistic expression, and achieves a distinctively personal revision of the traditional conception of the boundaries of the work of art and therefore also its essence and purpose. The essay %22Soci\u00E1ln\u00ED u\u017Eite\u010Dnost um\u011Bn\u00ED%22 (The social utility of art, 1919) also relates to these questions." . . "Josef \u010Capek\u2019s Interpretation of Primitivism"@en . "Pe\u010D\u00EDnkov\u00E1, Pavla" . . . "http://aesthetics.ff.cuni.cz/archive/?year=2012&no=1" . "CZ - \u010Cesk\u00E1 republika" . . . . . "Josef \u010Capek\u2019s Interpretation of Primitivism" . . "1"^^ . . "RIV/60461071:_____/12:#0000274!RIV13-MSM-60461071" . "[0F83C3DF622C]" . . "1"^^ . "V" . . "Josef \u010Capek; primitivism; ethnic art; modernism"@en . . . "143852" . "RIV/60461071:_____/12:#0000274" . . "5" . "Josef \u010Capek\u2019s Interpretation of Primitivism" . "0014-1291" . "38"^^ . "Josef \u010Capek\u00B4s writings from between 1914 and 1920 present a distinctive conception of primitivism, which was, beginning in the early twentieth century, of fundamental importance for the development of modern trends in the fine arts, in connection with the essential change in understanding the term %22art%22. Two manuscript version of the essay Um\u011Bn\u00ED p\u0159\u00EDrodn\u00EDch n\u00E1rod\u016F (The art of primitive peoples) from 1914 to 1916 and the article %22Socha\u0159stv\u00ED \u010Dernoch\u016F%22 (Negro sculpture) from 1918 are amongst the first European critical attempts to interpret ethnic art. \u010Capek presents the %22art of the savages%22 (divo\u0161sk\u00E9 um\u011Bn\u00ED) as fully fledged art, and he tries to analyse its principles of expression. He compares them to current trends in art. The essays from the volume Nejskromn\u011Bj\u0161\u00ED um\u011Bn\u00ED (The humblest art, 1919\u201320), which consider other dimensions of primitivism, present a particular definition and expansion of the term %22art%22. In contrast to academic virtuosity, \u010Capek here emphasizes values of hitherto peripheral and unacknowledged areas of artistic expression, and achieves a distinctively personal revision of the traditional conception of the boundaries of the work of art and therefore also its essence and purpose. The essay %22Soci\u00E1ln\u00ED u\u017Eite\u010Dnost um\u011Bn\u00ED%22 (The social utility of art, 1919) also relates to these questions."@en . "Josef \u010Capek\u2019s Interpretation of Primitivism"@en . . . "1" . "Estetika : The Central European Journal of Aesthetics" .