Negrophilia
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This fascination with black culture and a "primitivised" existence flourished in the aftermath of the First World War (1914–1918), when artists yearned for a simpler, idyllic lifestyle to counter modern life's mechanistic violence. Avant-garde artists recognised for their negrophilia interests were poet Guillaume Apollinaire, artists Tzara, Man Ray, Paul Colin and surrealists George Bataille and Michel Leiris (L'Afrique fantôme) and political activist Nancy Cunard.
See also
- Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (2000) by Petrine Archer-Straw.
- Michel Fabre's From Harlem to Paris (91),
- Tyler Stovall's Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (96).
See also
- American migration to Europe
- Nancy Cunard
- Paul Guillaume
- Man Ray
- Music of the African diaspora
- African art's influence on Western art
- Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s
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