For a Critique of the Pure Fetish

Contribution by Aldo Tagliaferri published in issue 3/4 of the journal L'Uomo e l'Arte, pp. 1-9. The issue, edited by Tagliaferri himself, was published on the occasion of the exhibition Creazione e tradizione tribale. Sculture dell'Oceania e dell'Africa occidentale (Creation and Tribal Tradition. Sculptures of Oceania and West Africa), held in the fall of 1971 at the Centro d'arte contemporanea e primitiva L'Uomo e l'Arte in Milan