TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monroe,John Warne
TI  - Metropolitan fetish: African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art
SN  - 9781501736360
AV  - N7391 .M487 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Art, African
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - Art
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Art critics
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - African influences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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