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• Title:Exotic : a fetish for the foreign / Judy Sund.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sund, Judy, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.S6 S86 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art and society--Western countries--Foreign influences.
  Art--Foreign influences.
  Exoticism in art.
  
• Description:271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:Exotic explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque. Through a host of evocative images, this book shows how the absorption of 'the foreign,' through arts, design, architecture, and other cultural elements, has consistently enriched Western society, contributing to it cultural dynamism and artistic energy. Exotic's focus is especially relevant to the modern globalised world in which our engagement with cultures and traditions from around the globe is easier - and potentially more fraught - than ever before.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780714876375 (hardback)
  0714876372 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Earliest exotic
  Exotic easts, from Rome to romanesque
  Self-styled exotic : construction Venice
  From three to four : the invention of America
  Elusive emporia : the Indies' siren call
  Fantastic fripperies : Chinoiserie's heydey
  Turboned terror : Turks on the move
  Retreat to the Seraglio : putting the Turk in his place
  Savages, noble & otherwise
  Savages, novel & nubile
  Antiquity as novelty : Egyptomania
  Exotics everywhere : 19th & 20th century proliferation
  Further reading
  Index.