John Warne Monroe
Iowa State University
7 Papers
28 Citations
John Warne Monroe is an academic researcher from Iowa State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empire & Sculpture. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Surface Tensions: Empire, Parisian Modernism, and “Authenticity” in African Sculpture, 1917–1939
TL;DR: In the early decades of the twentieth century, a group of cutting-edge Parisian artists, collectors, and dealers transformed this admiration into a self-consciously avant-garde project as discussed by the authors.
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French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1975
TL;DR: Sherman et al. as mentioned in this paper describe a distinctively conflicted relationship with France in the twenty-first century and present a novel approach to the problem of French-German relations in the 21st century.
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Some Preliminary Responses to “Beyond Single Stories”
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi,Yaëlle Biro,Leslie Wilson,John Warne Monroe,Salia Malé,Marguerite de Sabran,Maxime de Formanoir,Joshua I. Cohen +7 more
TL;DR: Gagliardi and Biro as discussed by the authors have published a collection of responses to their essay "Beyond Single Stories: Addressing Dynamism, Speci city, and Agency in Arts of Africa" (African Arts vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1-6).
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The Market as “Artist”: The French Origins of the Obsession with Provenance in Historical African Art
TL;DR: Provenance has become crucially important in the Western market for historical African sculpture, and as a consequence individual African artists have been erased in favor of an emphasis on the dea...
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