Hiller - The Myth of Primitivism. Perspectives on Art - Esoteric Online

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P.S.122. His work has recently been shown in Matt’s Gallery, London and Orchard
Gallery, Northern Ireland. Durham’s essays and his book <strong>of</strong> poems, Columbus Day (West
End Press, 1983) have been translated into several languages. He currently lives and
works in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Jean Fisher is an artist, a regular contributor to major international art magazines, and
has written numerous critical essays on the work <strong>of</strong> British, Irish, and American artists.
Her specialities are contemporary art and cultural studies. She has cocurated exhibitions
in New York and London devoted to extending the debate on cultural difference to
include the particular situations <strong>of</strong> contemporary Native American artists. She lives in
New York and London, and is currently teaching Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College,
University <strong>of</strong> London. She is also associate editor <strong>of</strong> the quarterly journal Third Text.
Edgar Heap <strong>of</strong> Birds was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1954, and is a Cheyenne Arapaho
artist. He studied at the California College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Crafts, at the Tyler School <strong>of</strong> Art,
Temple University, Philadelphia; and the Royal College <strong>of</strong> Art, London. He has lectured
extensively in universities where he was artist-in-residence. An important part <strong>of</strong> his
work is curating touring exhibitions <strong>of</strong> contemporary Native American art. An exhibition
<strong>of</strong> his recent work was shown at Matt’s Gallery, London in 1988.
Susan <strong>Hiller</strong> is an artist whose work is exhibited internationally. She lives and works in
London.
Signe Howell is pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Social Anthropology at the University <strong>of</strong> Oslo where she
also is director <strong>of</strong> the University’s Ethnographic Museum. She studied at the universities
<strong>of</strong> London and Oxford and has previously taught in the Department <strong>of</strong> Social
Anthropology at the University <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among a hunter-gatherer
society in Malaysia and in an eastern Indonesian society. Among more recent
publications are Society and Cosmos: Chewong <strong>of</strong> Peninsular Malaysia (1989[1984]),
and an edited volume Societies at Peace: anthropological perspectives on peace and
violence (1989). She has a longstanding active interest in contemporary art.
Anna Howells studied anthropology at London University and is presently involved in a
medical research project in London.
Jill Lloyd is an art historian and critic specializing in twentieth-century German art. She
studied in London and Berlin and currently lives and works in Paris, where she co-directs
the magazine Art International. She is the author <strong>of</strong> German Expressionism: <strong>Primitivism</strong>
versus Modernity, published by Yale University Press in 1991.
David Maclagan was born in 1940 and currently lectures on art and psychotherapy at
Sheffield University and Birmingham Polytechnic. After reading history at Oxford, he
studied painting at the Royal College <strong>of</strong> Art and taught for ten years in art colleges before
training in Art <strong>The</strong>rapy at Goldsmiths’ College, University <strong>of</strong> London (1979–80). He
worked for five years in a therapeutic community under the National Health Service. He
has written articles on myth, imagination, and psychopathology, and has carried out
research on Antonin Artaud, Adolf Wölfli, and Grace Pailthorpe. He is the author <strong>of</strong>
Creation <strong>Myth</strong>s (Thames & Hudson, 1977).
Daniel Miller is a lecturer in Material Culture within the Department <strong>of</strong> Anthropology,
University College London. He has conducted fieldwork both as an archaeologist and as
an anthropologist in Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, India, and London, and is currently
working in Trinidad. His most recent book develops a theory <strong>of</strong> the nature <strong>of</strong>