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Metropolitan Fetish

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Metropolitan Fetish

By John Warne Monroe

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About the book

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...

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9781501736353

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Metropolitan Fetish

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Hardcover

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