Metropolitan fetish, African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art, John Warne Monroe
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Metropolitan fetish, African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art, John Warne Monroe
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-340) and index
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platesillustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Metropolitan fetish
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1088599624
Responsibility statement
John Warne Monroe
Sub title
African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art
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
Table Of Contents
Introduction: the French paradox of primitive art -- 1. The making of a metropolitan fetish: a fang mask transformed -- 2. Inventing antiquity: Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the universal history of primitive art -- 3. The wings of snobbery: Paul Guillaume and the launch of art nègre, 1911-29 -- 4. From art nègre to art primitif: black deco, ethnology, and surrealism in the late 1920s -- 5. Selling the "art of the ancestors": Charles Ratton, the art market, and the transatlantic black diaspora -- 6. Authenticity wars: primitive art between metropole and colony -- Conclusion: with an archival prophecy