METROPOLITAN FETISH

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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Monroe, John Warne, 1973-author.

Title: Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art / John Warne Monroe.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Art, African—Appreciation—France—History—20th century. | Art, Primitive—France—History—20th century. | Art—Collectors and collecting—France—History—20th century. | Art critics—France—History—20th century. | Modernism (Art)—African influences. | France—Colonies—Africa—History—20th century.

Classification: LCC N7391.65 (ebook) | LCC N7391.65 .M66 2019 (print) | DDC 709.6/0904—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007603

Frontispiece caption: Unidentified sculptor working in Baule style, Côte d’Ivoire. Mask. Photograph from the archives of Charles Stéphen-Chauvet, c. 1923. Sepia-toned gelatin silver; 13 × 17 ½ in. (33 × 44.5 cm). Author’s collection.

Cover image: Barnes Foundation Master, Dogon. Late-nineteenth—early-twentieth century. Seated Couple, wood, 25 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (64.5 x 24.8 x 23.2 cm). A197, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Image © 2019 The Barnes Foundation.