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Author James, Jamie, 1951- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  700.1 JAM    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  700.1 JAM    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  700.19 JAMES    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  700.19 JAM    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  700.19 JAMES    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  700.19 JAMES    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Artists -- Psychology.
Artists -- Biography.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Alienation (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst00805268
Artists. (OCoLC)fst00817559
Artists -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00817612
Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9780374163358 (hardback)
0374163359 (hardback)
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