{"product_id":"the-glamour-of-strangeness-artists-and-the-last-age-of-the-exotic-9780374163358","title":"The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In \u003ci\u003eThe Glamour of Strangeness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Glamour of Strangeness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Drawing on his own career as a travel writer and years of archival research uncovering previously unpublished letters and journals, James creates a penetrating investigation of the powerful connection between art and the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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jamie James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374163358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie James\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Snake Charmer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRimbaud in Java\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. He has contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He regularly reviewed art exhibitions and contributed features to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and served as the American arts correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lived in Indonesia since 1999, and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45215085330547,"sku":"9780374163358","price":40.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_6bc2c91a-36f4-4924-8941-7e79c5fd2905.jpg?v=1783687453","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-glamour-of-strangeness-artists-and-the-last-age-of-the-exotic-9780374163358","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}