John Warne Monroe

Metropolitan Fetish

African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art

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Produktbeschreibung

John Warne Monroe is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of Laboratories of Faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 190mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781501736353
• ISBN-10: 1501736353
• Artikelnr.: 55899198

Autorenporträt

John Warne Monroe is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of Laboratories of Faith.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The French Paradox of Primitive Art
1. The Making of a Metropolitcan Fetish: A Fang Mask Transformed
2. Inventing Antiquity: Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the Universal
History of Primitive Art
3. The Wings of Snobbery: Paul Guillaume and the Launch of Art Nègre,
1911-29
4. From Art Négre to Art Primitif: Black Deco, Ethnology, and Surrealism in
the Late 1920s
5. Selling the "Arts of the Ancestors": Charles Ratton, the Art Market, and
the Transatlantic Black Diaspora
6. Authenticity Wars: Primitive Art between Metropole and Colony
Conclusion: With an Archival Prophecy
Acknowledgments
List of Archival Abbreviations
Notes
Index