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Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art
Title
Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art / John Warne Monroe.
ISBN
9781501736353
1501736353
Publication
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xi, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
Summary
"A history of the French reception of African art, especially wooden masks and figures, in the first four decades of the twentieth century, and how that reception led to the creation of the broader aesthetic category Westerners now know as "primitive art"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Monroe, John Warne, 1973- Metropolitan fetish. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the French paradox of primitive art
The making of a metropolitan fetish
Inventing antiquity : Henri Clouzot, André Level and the universal history of primitive art
The wings of snobbery : Paul Guillaume and the launch of art nègre
From art nègre to art primitif : black deco, ethnology and surrealism in the late 1920s
Selling "the art of the ancestors" : Charles Ratton, the art market, and the black diaspora
Authenticity wars : primitive art between metropole and colony
Conclusion, with an archival prophecy.
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