Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign

by Judy Sund

A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western culture

Exotic explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque. Through a host of evocative images, this book shows how the absorption of 'the foreign, ' through arts, design, architecture, and other cultural elements, has consistently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714876372
• ISBN13: 9780714876375
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.7"