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Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign

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Explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque.

Artist / Author Judy Sund
Publisher Phaidon Press
ISBN 978-0714876375
Reference P3912
Date 2019
Type Publication

Keywords

appropriation architecture colonialism design foreign globalisation visual art West

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