Tradizione e creatività: appunti su un convegno

Contribution by Edmund Carpenter published in issue nos. 3/4 of the journal L’Uomo e l’Arte, pp. 39–47. The issue, edited by Aldo Tagliaferri, was published on the occasion of the exhibition Creazione e tradizione tribale. Sculture dell’Oceania e dell’Africa occidentale, held in autumn 1971 at the Centro d’arte contemporanea e primitiva L’Uomo e l’Arte in Milan. Carpenter’s text consists of notes presented at the 1965 conference in California on the theme “Creation and Creativity” and was originally published in Tradition and Creativity, edited by Daniel Biebuyck, University of California Press, 1969.