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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monroe, John Warne, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, African--Appreciation--France--History--20th century.

Art, African.

Art, Modern--20th century--History.

Art, Modern.

History.

Art--Collectors and collecting--France--History--20th century.

Art.

Art critics--France--History--20th century.

Art critics.

Modernism (Art)--African influences.

Modernism (Art).

Colonies.

Art--Collectors and collecting.

France--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.

France.

French colonies.

Africa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Monroe, John Warne, 1973- Metropolitan fetish.

ISBN:

9781501736353

1501736353

OCLC:

1088599624