Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Another eighteenth-century exotic mania forging social relationships is the taste for chinoiserie porcelain, one of the artistic manifestations of Le Rêve chinois , which reached its height thanks to the feminine and domestic culture of tea … 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 mainly considered as a …
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