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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.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Subject:

Guillaume, Paul--1891-1934
Level, André--1863-1946
Ratton, Charles--1897-1986
1900-1999
Art, African--History--France--History--20th century.
Art, Primitive--History--20th century.
Art--History--France--History--20th century.
Art critics--France--History--20th century.
Modernism (Art)--African influences.
France--History--Africa--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1501736353
9781501736353

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1088599624

LCCN:

2019007603

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)