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

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Monroe, John Warne, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019
Subjects:
1900-1999
Art, African > Appreciation > France > History > 20th century.
Art, Modern > 20th century > History.
Art > Collectors and collecting > France > History > 20th century.
Art critics > France > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Art) > African influences.
Art africain > Appréciation > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art > 20e siècle > Histoire.
Art > Collectionneurs et collections > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Critiques d'art > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Art > Collectors and collecting
Art critics
Art.
French colonies
Modernism (Art) > African influences
Art africain > France > Appreciation > 20e siecle.
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
Africa
France
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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