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Author Monroe, John Warne, 1973- author.

Title Metropolitan fetish African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art / John Warne Monroe.

Publication Info. Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the French paradox of primitive art -- The making of a metropolitan fetish : a fang mask transformed -- 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, 1911-29 -- From art nègre to art primitif : black deco, ethnology, and surrealism in the late 1920s -- Selling the "arts of the ancestors" : Charles Ratton, the art market, and the transatlantic black diaspora -- Authenticity wars : primitive art between metropole and colony -- Conclusion : with an archival prophecy
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
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Subject Art, African -- Appreciation -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Art, African.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History.
Art, Prehistoric -- History -- 20th century.
Art, Modern.
History.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
Art critics -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Art critics.
Modernism (Art) -- African influences.
Modernism (Art) -- African influences.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Colonies.
Africa.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version Monroe, John Warne, 1973- Metropolitan fetish Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501736353 (DLC) 2019007603 (OCoLC)1088599624
ISBN 9781501736360 electronic book
1501736361 electronic book
9781501736377
150173637X
9781501736353 hardcover
1501736353 hardcover