The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization
Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms
2009, January 18, Ben Rayner, Ben Rayner's reasons to live, Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached.
