Exotic Switzerland?
Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
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Publication
2020 - diaphanes
Language
English
Word Count
91,000 words, Guess
Page Count
364 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139783035802276
- ISBN-103035802270
- OCLC Control Number1199944925
- Better World Books9783035802276
- Open LibraryOL35554543M
Classifications
- LCCN8217.E88 E96 2020
Description
Why is an object, an artwork, or a person deemed "exotic"? How does one's gaze get directed onto things or people seemingly belonging to other regions or cultures? These questions are examined here in relation to a specific context: the Enlightenment era from the Swiss perspective. This publication brings together research by academics and museum specialists for the first time in order to rethink this time period and geography. It contains essays and shorter texts centered on pictures, objects, books, and natural specimens from Swiss museum collections. "Exotic" in this context refers to things that come from elsewhere and that can be used and "improved" for the benefit of European powers. The term invites us to reconsider both the long eighteenth century and the international history of Switzerland.
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