CONTENTS
Preface
INTRODUCTION:
The French Paradox of Primitive Art
1
THE MAKING OF A METROPOLITAN FETISH:
A Fang Mask Transformed
2
INVENTING ANTIQUITY:
Henri Clouzot, André Level, and the Universal History of Primitive Art
3
THE WINGS OF SNOBBERY:
Paul Guillaume and the Launch of
Art Nègre
, 1911–29
4
FROM
ART NÈGRE
TO
ART PRIMITIF
:
Black Deco, Ethnology, and Surrealism in the Late 1920s
5
SELLING THE “ARTS OF THE ANCESTORS”:
Charles Ratton, the Art Market, and the Transatlantic Black Diaspora
6
AUTHENTICITY WARS:
Primitive Art between Metropole and Colony
CONCLUSION:
With an Archival Prophecy
Acknowledgments
List of Archival Abbreviations
Notes
Index
A gallery of color plates