Metropolitan Fetish

Warne Monroe John

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From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. 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. John 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. Metropolitan Fetish reveals 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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• África
• History of art
• History of Europe
• Africa
• France

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501736360
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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M E T R O P O L I T A N F E T I S H

M E T R O P O L I T A N F E T I S H

African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art

JOH N WAR N E MO N RO E

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To Wendîe Schneîder, who gave me the îdea, and to the unjusty anonymous Arîcan artîsts whose genîus enîvens these pages

C O N T E N T S

Preface ix

INTRODUCTION The French Paradox of Primitive Art 1

1 AKING OF A METROPOLITAN FETISHTHE M A Fang Mask Transformed 19

2 INVENTING ANTIQUIT Y Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the Universal History of Primitive Art 43

3 THE WINGS OF SNOBBERY Paul Guillaume and the Launch ofArt Nègre85, 1911–29

4 FROMÈGREART N TOART PRIMITI F Black Deco, Ethnology, and Surrealism in the Late 1920s 131

5 SELLING THE “ARTS OF THE ANCESTORS” Charles Ratton, the Art Market, and the Transatlantic Black Diaspora 173

6 AUTHENTICIT Y WARS Primitive Art between Metropole and Colony 235

CONCLUSION With an Archival Prophecy 291

Acknowledgments 303

List of Archival Abbreviations 306

Notes 307

Index 341

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P R E FAC E

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