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Decio Tozzi

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Thomas Eakins

Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign Backlist from ancient rites to contemporaryA 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 enriched Western society,