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James, Jamie, 1951-
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Artists -- Psychology.
Artists -- Biography.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
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James, Jamie, 1951-
Artists -- Psychology.
Artists -- Biography.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
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The glamour of strangeness : artists and the last age of the exotic /
Jamie
James
.
by
James
,
Jamie
,
1951-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Call #:
700.19 J278g
Subjects
Artists -- Psychology.
Artists -- Biography.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
ISBN:
9780374163358 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 364 p. : ill. , portr. ; 24 cm.
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.
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"--From publisher.
"According 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.
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