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037 $bFarrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600$nSAN 631-5011
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100 1 $aJames, Jamie,$d1951-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe glamour of strangeness :$bartists and the last age of the exotic /$cJamie James.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2016.
300 $axii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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520 $a"Exploration of a "rare, emotionally intense way of life" in which artists like Raden Saleh and Walter Spies abandon the cultures that created them and adopt an exotic alternative"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $aAccording to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In this book, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them." From the early days of steamship travel, artists stifled by the culture of their homelands fled to islands, jungles, and deserts in search of new creative and emotional frontiers. Their flight inspired a unique body of work that doesn't fit squarely within the Western canon, yet may be some of the most original statements we have about the range and depth of the artistic imagination. Focusing on six principal subjects, Jamie James locates "a lost national school" of artists who left their homes for the unknown. There is Walter Spies, the devastatingly handsome German painter who remade his life in Bali; Raden Saleh, the Javanese painter who found fame in Europe; Isabelle Eberhardt, a Russian-Swiss writer who roamed the Sahara dressed as an Arab man; the American experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, who went to Haiti and became a committed follower of voodoo. From France, Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti; Victor Segalen, a naval doctor, poet, and novelist, immersed himself in classical Chinese civilization in imperial Peking. James evokes these extraordinary lives in portraits that bring the transcultural artist into sharp relief. Drawing on his own career as a travel writer and years of archival research uncovering previously unpublished letters and journals, James creates a penetrating investigation of the powerful connection between art and the exotic.--From dust jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and index.
505 0 $aAn 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.
650 0 $aArtists$xPsychology.
650 0 $aArtists$vBiography.
650 0 $aAlienation (Social psychology)
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)
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