Metropolitan fetish African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art
Monroe, John Warne, 1973-
Metropolitan fetish African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art John Warne Monroe - Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) illustrations, map
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
"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"--
9781501736360 9781501736377
2019008373
Art, African--Appreciation--History--France--20th century.
Art, Modern--History.--20th century
Art--Collectors and collecting--History--France--20th century.
Art critics--History--France--20th century.
Modernism (Art)--African influences.
Electronic Books.
N7391 / .M487 2019
Metropolitan fetish African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art John Warne Monroe - Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) illustrations, map
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
"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"--
9781501736360 9781501736377
2019008373
Art, African--Appreciation--History--France--20th century.
Art, Modern--History.--20th century
Art--Collectors and collecting--History--France--20th century.
Art critics--History--France--20th century.
Modernism (Art)--African influences.
Electronic Books.
N7391 / .M487 2019