[PDF.63fl] The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic

The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Extreme lives in extreme lands|By Washington reader|Jamie James writes that the genesis of this engrossing book lies in an experience during a trip to Angkor Wat in 1988, a time when Cambodia was all but closed to Westerners as its long civil war spluttered to a close. A soldier asked James what American money looked like. Inspecting Washington’s portrait on the duly pr| ||"Esoterically learned and always entertaining . . . [Jamie James] may be a blue-chip professional writer (and one with a subtle sense of language and a very good idea of where his reader is), but there's no question that his new book is the work of an amateur

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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic   |  Jamie James. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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