Sentences with word «exoticism»

Bulgari Resort Bali is located in one of the most exclusive destinations in the world, a veritable emblem of the tropical exoticism of the Orient, combining the breathtaking beauty of unspoiled nature of Bali beach resorts with a sophisticated contemporary design born from the encounter between traditional Balinese forms and high Italian style...

An international exhibition project on exoticism in the twenty - first century (in cooperation with Galerie M).

This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display in Stealing Beauty, even if the film's philosophizing sometimes lacks the intellectual heft of a cotton puff.

It is hard to resist going further, time passes, the brain reels at such exoticisms as «bozotic», «fool files», «sig blocks» and «feeping creaturism», not to mention «waving a dead chicken», so that only an hour later it is the normal world that looks deranged.

all the Moroccan imperial cities, Marrakech is undoubtedly that whose name evokes more exoticism, expatriation enchantment in Morocco.

Surrounded by a colony of paradisiac islands and the second coral reef in the world, Belize hints at exoticism and romanticism whilst also offering a fantastic range of activities for adventure seekers: walks across tropical rainforests, discovering the way of the ancient Maya and relaxing massages by the sea.

Random House even removed the diacritic from the name of Jo Nesbø lest such exoticism startle fragile crime fans (although Simon & Schuster have more faith in the child readers of his Doctor Proctor books and kept it).

Is a sea temple located at Braban village Tabanan, it has fascinating view of temple and ocean, a standard vacationer and social image for photography and general exoticism.

In 1993, he left New York for Bali, Indonesia, where his work took on a distinct tropical exoticism often in sharp contrast to his Neo-Geo work, which was an abstract and geometric exploration of consumerism and industrialization.

Camille Henrot, «Essay on Exoticism, Victor Segalen», 2012.

Megumi you wrote a review in 2006 about the travelling exhibition, Africa Remix commenting that you were looking forward to the next step in the representation of contemporary African art, beyond exoticism and romanticism, the point where it would begin to coexist amongst different things.

Husband - and - wife team Kyle Linden Webster and Naomi Pomeroy (of Beast) are behind this conceptual ode to an expat bar, where every detail, from the ornate salvaged moon gate to the global drinking snacks (like Chinese sausage corn dogs), drips with nostalgic, if slightly irreverent, exoticism by way of the Lonely Planet.

The fact that they take place over two legs also lends them a pleasing note of mild but pleasing exoticism; in the professional English domestic calendar, the only other two - legged games come right at the end of the season in the Football League playoffs.

Somewhat less ubiquitous is the story of the woman named Mata Hari — the woman who defined exoticism and intrigue and, some would say, died for it.

With echoes of the Jazz Age, this handmade brass Palm Tree Floor Lamp will bring exoticism to your décor with its sheer boldness.

Those were the colonial - era mythmakers whose exoticism must surely have influenced Stan Lee and Jack Kirby when they devised the comic books in the 1960s, supplying the Afro - in the steely afrofuturism of Black Panther that generations of fans have treasured and reclaimed as an alternative to the pop culture of white America.

It has enough of the innocent exoticism and splendor of silent thrillers to suggest a continuity with the past missing from most other movies; all that's required is a capacity to sit back and dream.

The lure of third - world exoticism may seem relatively extraneous to Les vampires, but it functions centrally in Tih Minh, where the title heroine is Vietnamese.

Perhaps Weinstein was tickled by director Daniel Lee's pedigree — he's been an internationally known quantity since his 1996 Jet Li vehicle, Black Mask — or compelled by the cartoonish exoticism of his recent historical epics.

Little Boxes mines subtle comic gold from the misunderstandings of wine - swilling faculty burnouts, cool - crazed fifth - grade girls and the accidental exoticism of an NYC family thrust from its comfort zone.

But alongside the sci - fi exoticism he brought the grit and sinew of contemporary realism, calling to mind the work of film - makers like Ken Loach, or even Abbas Kiarostami and the opening of his The Taste of Cherry, in which a desperately unhappy man drives around the itinerant labour markets of Teheran looking for someone to help him.

There's the friendly exoticism of a foreign country, a comfortable physical intimacy they hope will one day bring a child into the world, and James's attentiveness, which feels natural and helpful instead of oppressive.

It would be nice to say that Deray's first American - made film added new dimensions to the genre; that a foreign filmmaker practiced in shooting French - based derivations of our native genre might reveal to us unsuspected strains of exoticism gleaming out of the domestic bedrock.

There's also a scene in the movie, just after Ben has arrived in New York City and spills out onto 8th Avenue, that is stained by a troubling exoticism.

The paranormal is the least disturbing of the elements here, played with a gleefully operatic excess, and more than a whiff of the disturbing exoticism of Grand Guignol at work in the passions unleashed.

Black Narcissus is thick with lush exoticism, and the film builds to a throbbing, murderous crescendo.

Most of the six - figure guessers look as if they also might consider toothpaste to be a luxury commodity wildly out the reach of the average man, but it's still safe to say that the Elise exudes an air of exoticism far beyond its price.

We batted our eyelashes at them and blended their refinement with our tribal exoticism.

As I beach - hopped through Rio de Janeiro, Buzios, Cabo Frio and Ihla Grande I was enchanted by the culinary exoticism of words I hadn't heard before.

Hold your wedding just a stone's throw from the water's edge to add exoticism and wonder to your ceremony.

Nick Tosches might paint certain Bangkok neighborhoods with sinister exoticism for the pages of Vanity Fair, but a 17 - year - old backpacker can call his bluff on a travel weblog and compare those same neighborhoods to suburban Sydney.

In short, a trip to Lombok promises an island paradise experience that combines overland adventures and rugged natural beauty, with a hint of exoticism through its well - preserved traditional arts and host of historical landmarks.

But not all of them offer the same exoticism.

Western religions certainly have their share of practitioners in Japan, but those faiths still have an air of exoticism about them: Vaguely familiar, yet foreign enough to spice up a work with a dash of mystery.

Similarly, the bulk of the Assassin's Creed franchise used meticulous recreations of Jerusalem, Venice, colonial Boston, and Victorian London, endowing exoticism to its otherwise conventional mission structure.

While Hurvin Anderson's paintings tease out the complexities of relocation and displacement, Peter Doig's risk sliding into exoticism

The exhibition also explores Western, and largely American, engagement with Japan and Asia at a time when attitudes of paternalistic exoticism at the turn of the century grew into friction and hostility in the 1930s.

Assiff translates the luscious exoticism of Rousseau's original paintings into a thick, almost bas - relief plasticity and removes the figures and animals to create an aestheticized deforestation as visible in «Untitled (Exotic Landscape).»

Installation view of «Romantic Exoticism» gallery, «Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty» at the V&A.

While the larger public latched on to the superficial exoticism of his work and were captivated by his overnight celebrity, his art, often described inaccurately as «Naif» and «Ethnically gritty», held important connections to expressive precursors, such as Jean Dubuffet and Cy Twombly.

If these cartoonish figurations, in his earlier idiom, stem from the Beckmann / Markus Lüpertz / Kippenberger tradition of soured angst and caustic irony, the geometric abstractions bait the US market that has avidly bought into them as European exoticisms.

Her uses of pattern bring complex cultural associations of domesticity and colonial exoticism while also intimating the duality that occurs within the same memory or relationship.

Here, more than previously, Rhoades can be said to have attained a certain focus — on the similarities of two separate mass - market tourist exoticisms: fake maracas, sombreros; bogus designer handbags; Moroccan hanging lights and so on.

Riding notes that: «For many Americans and northern Europeans... Mexico's main appeal was its sheer exoticism, the sense that beneath a thin veneer of westernism lay a country profoundly different from anything they had ever known.

The son of a miner, Lavery has developed an enduring interest and passion for his subject since dropping in on a small indoor circus in his hometown of Wakefield in 1968: «I was immediately struck by the disparity between the outward exoticism, the finery, the sequined costumes, the plumes, the elaborate display and backstage ordinariness.

As the history of art in the twentieth century unfolded, with the world - making intersection of the ethnographic and modernity, the representational strategies of colonial identities were bound up in extreme depictions of racial exoticism.