Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art /
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."
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| 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." |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, map ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501736353 1501736353 |