Infelicities
representations of the exotic
by Mason, Peter
In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe.
In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.
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Infelicities: representations of the exotic
1998, Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801858801 9780801858802
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-244) and index.
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