Today the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a book review of "Matisse und Picasso als Kulturrreisende. Primitivismus und Anthropologie um 1900" by Bärbel Küster. Unfortunately I haven't found the online-article yet, but I will add it later...

Küster investigated in her dissertation the view on painters representation of the earlier so called "primitives" - such as paintings as "La Gitane" or "L' Algérienne" by Matisse or "Deux femmes nues" by Picasso. She constitutes the thesis of the "anthropological turn" (1)Maybe someone might add something about "anthropological turn" in the theoretical debate in History of Art. My expertise ends here unfortunately! by statements of theory in art and states that painters in the early 20th century have been highly influenced by anthropological photographs, adapting the anthropological question of characteristics of human beings though presenting the "primitives" in a different way than ethnographers.

Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003. 239 pages, 39,90.

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