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

Author/Contributor(s):	Monroe, John Warne
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2019
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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...