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Author:

James, Jamie, 1951- author.

Title:

The glamour of strangeness : artists and the last age of the exotic / Jamie James.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Artists--Psychology.
Artists--Biography.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
TRAVEL--Literary.--Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Alienation (Social psychology)
Artists.
Artists--Psychology.
Identity (Psychology)
Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-341) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0374163359
9780374163358

OCLC:

(OCoLC)918994993

LCCN:

2015041555

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)