{"product_id":"metropolitan-fetish-9781501736353","title":"Metropolitan Fetish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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. \u003ci\u003eMetropolitan Fetish \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis well-written study will be valuable for art scholars at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e -- M. Miller, Louisiana State University * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Warne Monroe's book on the reception of African art in France (1910s-1930s) comes out at a critical moment when French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to return African heritage has transformed into a polemic opposing those in favor to those against.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The French Paradox of Primitive Art\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Making of a Metropolitcan Fetish: A Fang Mask Transformed\u003cbr\u003e 2. Inventing Antiquity: Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the Universal History of Primitive Art\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Wings of Snobbery: Paul Guillaume and the Launch of Art Nègre, 1911–29\u003cbr\u003e 4. From Art Négre to Art Primitif: Black Deco, Ethnology, and Surrealism in the Late 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Selling the \"Arts of the Ancestors\": Charles Ratton, the Art Market, and the Transatlantic Black Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e 6. Authenticity Wars: Primitive Art between Metropole and Colony\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: With an Archival Prophecy\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Archival Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409336574295,"sku":"9781501736353","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501736353.jpg?v=1730506467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metropolitan-fetish-9781501736353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}