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The cultural moment of the fin-de-siècle is defined by the diverse array of fetishistic fantasies that emerged in the art and literature of the modern era; only in embracing this 'new' fetishism emerging from the fringes of late nineteenth century society can we begin to classify fetishism in a non-traditional manner that does justice to its multiplicity. The concept of fetishism and its manifestations demonstrates a transformative ethos beyond the classical model; harbingers of the Decadent aesthetic, modern artists' fetishistic cultural fantasies complicated and disrupted the conventional model.