{"product_id":"metropolitan-fetish-african-sculpture-and-the-imperial-french-invention-of-primitive-art-hardback-9781501736353","title":"Metropolitan Fetish; African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art (Hardback) 9781501736353","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMetropolitan Fetish\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Warne Monroe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501736353\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 117 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 map, 10 color plates - 10 Plates, color - 117 Halftones, black and white - 1 Maps\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.2 cm, 1.361 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis well-written study will be valuable for art scholars at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e - M. Miller, Louisiana State University (Choice) \u003cp\u003eJohn Warne Monroe's book on the reception of African art in France (1910s-1930s) comes out at a critical moment when French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to return African heritage has transformed into a polemic opposing those in favor to those against.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Modern History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. \u003ci\u003eMetropolitan Fetish \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of \"primitive art\" was invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The French Paradox of Primitive Art\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Making of a Metropolitcan Fetish: A Fang Mask Transformed\u003cbr\u003e 2. Inventing Antiquity: Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the Universal History of Primitive Art\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Wings of Snobbery: Paul Guillaume and the Launch of Art Nègre, 1911–29\u003cbr\u003e 4. From Art Négre to Art Primitif: Black Deco, Ethnology, and Surrealism in the Late 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Selling the \"Arts of the Ancestors\": Charles Ratton, the Art Market, and the Transatlantic Black Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e 6. Authenticity Wars: Primitive Art between Metropole and Colony\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: With an Archival Prophecy\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Archival Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676617208088,"sku":"9781501736353","price":32.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/metropolitan-fetish-african-sculpture-and-the-imperial-french-invention-of-primitive-art-hardback-9781501736353","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}