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

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

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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...