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

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Monroe, John Warne, 1973- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781501736360
9781501736377

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N7391 .M487 2019

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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

Subject: "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"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	N7391.65 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1088606102

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"--

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