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Introduction : the French paradox of primitive art
The making of a metropolitan fetish
Inventing antiquity : Henri Clouzot, André Level and the universal history of primitive art
The wings of snobbery : Paul Guillaume and the launch of art nègre
From art nègre to art primitif : black deco, ethnology and surrealism in the late 1920s
Selling "the art of the ancestors" : Charles Ratton, the art market, and the black diaspora
Authenticity wars : primitive art between metropole and colony
Conclusion, with an archival prophecy.
The making of a metropolitan fetish
Inventing antiquity : Henri Clouzot, André Level and the universal history of primitive art
The wings of snobbery : Paul Guillaume and the launch of art nègre
From art nègre to art primitif : black deco, ethnology and surrealism in the late 1920s
Selling "the art of the ancestors" : Charles Ratton, the art market, and the black diaspora
Authenticity wars : primitive art between metropole and colony
Conclusion, with an archival prophecy.