| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art, African -- Appreciation -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Art critics -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Modernism (Art) -- African influences.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Art -- Collectors and collecting
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Art critics
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Art
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French colonies
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Modernism (Art) -- African influences
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Art africain -- France -- Appreciation -- 20e siecle.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Africa
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019008373 |
| ISBN |
9781501736360 |
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1501736361 |
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9781501736377 |
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150173637X |
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