Metropolitan Fetish : : African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art / / John Warne Monroe.
From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries;...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 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 "ARTS 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
- Acknowledgments
- List of Archival Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Plate 1 - 10