Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art

From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home...
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Author: John Warne Monroe
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Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art by Monroe, John Warne

Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art

$101.93

Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art

$101.93
Author: John Warne Monroe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: John Warne Monroe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781501736353
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2020

About the Author

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


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