Exotic : a fetish for the foreign / Judy Sund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sund, Judy, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Foreign influences.

Art.

Art and society.

Western countries.

Art and society--Western countries--Foreign influences.

Exoticism in art.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780714876375

0714876372

OCLC:

1090297136