Art, Ethnography and the Life of Objects: Paris, C.1925-35

by Julia Kelly

In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719069416
• ISBN13: 9780719069413
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"