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by Daniel J. Sherman

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For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and expansive book argues that primitivism played a key role in a French society marked by both economic growth and political turmoil.

In a series of chapters that consider significant aspects of French culture--including the creation of new museums of French folklore and of African and Oceanic arts and the development of tourism against the backdrop of nuclear testing in French Polynesia--Daniel J. Sherman shows how primitivism, a collective fantasy born of the colonial encounter, proved adaptable to a postcolonial, inward-looking age of mass consumption. Following the likes of Claude Lvi-Strauss, Andre Putman, and Jean Dubuffet through decorating magazines, museum galleries, and Tahiti's pristine lagoons, this interdisciplinary study provides a new perspective on primitivism as a cultural phenomenon and offers fresh insights into the eccentric edges of contemporary French history.

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  • Title French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975
  • Author Daniel J. Sherman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2011
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226752693 / 0226752690
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Primitivism in art - France, France - Civilization - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010048763
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700

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  • Choice, 05/01/2012, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/25/2011, Page 16

About the author

Daniel J. Sherman is professor of art history and adjunct professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In addition to editing several books in critical museum studies, he is the author of Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France and The Construction of Memory in Interwar France, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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