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The glamour of strangeness : artists and the last age of the exotic / Jamie James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Jamie, 1951-2020, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Psychology.
- Artists.
- Artists--Biography.
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- Identity (Psychology).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Exploration of a "rare, emotionally intense way of life" in which artists like Raden Saleh and Walter Spies abandon the cultures that created them and adopt an exotic alternative"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- An invitation
- The studio of the tropics
- Prince of Java
- Insanely gorgeous
- Goona-Goona in Bali
- The empire of the self
- Seekers of oblivion
- Possessed by rhythm
- The last age of exoticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-341) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374163358
- 0374163359
- OCLC:
- 918994993
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