Awards

• Short-listed for Charles Rufus Morey Book Award 2020 (United States)
• Winner of Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award 2021 (United States)
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2020

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Metropolitan Fetish is a truly excellent book: ambitious in reach, rich in detail, and masterfully narrated. By establishing the complex commercial, colonial, and intellectual networks that made possible the revaluation of African sculpture, Monroe transforms our understanding of the French infatuation with black culture as a key marker of imperial modernity. - -- Alice L. Conklin, author of<I> In the Museum of Man</I> This is a profoundly important book. Elegantly written and lavishly illustrated, Metropolitan Fetish will establish itself as a landmark in the history of the reception of African art in the West. -- Christopher B. Steiner, author of <I>African Art in Transit</I> While traditional African art continues to capture new audiences, John Monroe tells the fascinating story of how it all began. We meet the avant-garde visionaries who looked beyond the ethnographic, re-classifying African material culture as 'Art.' A book full of historical pioneers you will want to get to know. Highly recommended! -- Bruno Claessens, European Director of African Art, Christie's

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John Warne Monroe is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of Laboratories of Faith.

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