Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… it is equally true that the Orient attracted the interest of collectors resulting in the exotic modes of chinoiserie and turquerie . Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries … interposition of cultures. 9 . David Hume, Four Dissertations (London: A. Miller, 1757), p. 203. Eighteenth-Century Turquerie as an orientalizing and freeing phenomenon A most fashionable exotic mania was turquerie , a commercial and artistic phenomenon aimed at orientalizing European civility. Like chinoiserie , which was …
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