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Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art John Warne Monroe
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Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
John Warne Monroe
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...
368 pages, 10 Plates, color; 1 Maps; 117 Halftones, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 15, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781501736353 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 1.36 kg |
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