French primitivism and the ends of empire, 1945--1975
By: Daniel J. Sherman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226752693
Subjects: Primitivism in art; Colonies; Civilization
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Circa 1967; title: Peoples ethnographic: the colonial inheritance of French; title: Ethnography; title: Primitive accumulation: refashioning the colonial; title: Totemic artists: Gaston Chiassac, Jean Dubuffet, and the problem of categories; title: Trouble in paradise: tourism and the myth of preservation in French Polynesia.