When it comes to culture, Montenegro has it in abundance and
with historical icons and artefacts as well as beautiful views; Montenegro is perfect for the backpackers among you.
Not exact matches
If you're not familiar
with the real Jackie or the accents of the Kennedy family, her voice is immediately jarring, but as you grow accustomed to it, you realize it's just another way for the actress to completely embody the spirit and physicality of the
historical icon.
Well, the young British charmer is in the race again
with The Danish Girl, the Tom Hooper - helmed
historical drama about trans
icon Lili Elbe (Redmayne) and her wife, Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander).
His signature fictional creation, Forrest Gump, routinely found himself in the maelstrom of
historical events and much to the delight of readers — and movie audiences — even interacted
with icons such as President Kennedy and MLK Jr..
«Intoxicating» (The Financial Times) and «as good a
historical novel as you could read» (The Times, London), Golden Hill shows us a city provokingly different from its later self; but subtly shadowed by the great
icon to come, and already a place where a young man
with a fast tongue can invent himself anew, fall in love - and find a world of trouble.
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The Android version has a row of
icons at the bottom of the screen that quickly take you to a «Discover» section (
with lists such as New York Time's Fiction Bestsellers, Oprah's Book Club and 2010 Pulitzer Winners), a Browse section that lets you drill down through categories and subcategories (e.g. Sci Fi & Fantasy - > Fantasy - >
Historical and finally a list of titles), and finally a search box.
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It is a quick excursion in Cusco, which gives you the opportunity to get to know some of the Incan culture's main architectural
icons, along
with the monumental aspect of The Imperial City's
Historical Center declared as Humanity's Cultural Patrimony.
The hotel has 48 rooms
with colorful, yet elegant décor
with nods to Asian and
historical influences — each celebrating a different San Francisco
icon.
You can re-skin your mini-masterpieces at the touch of an
icon — initially, you're given the classic Super Mario Bros art - style, along
with that of New Super Mario Bros U, but there are countless others to acquire, taking you through some of the more obscure
historical iterations of the game.
Mixing art
historical references
with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from
icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.
John Baldessari, known for his homages to the art
historical canon, will pair two
icons of art: French painter Francis Picabia
with Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Mixing art
historical references
with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from
icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.
He paradoxically began his career
with a blue heritage plaque announcing his own demise and posthumous recognition, but his subsequent work has drawn on art -
historical icons to play
with the idea of various reincarnations.
This silent
icon of media art provides both an interesting sonic experience within Cloud and a fitting
historical reference: the work operates
with audio generators, an audio amplifier, and an altered TV monitor, marking one of the first instances in which an artist employed live interaction between a sound system and an electronic image.
His subjects include family and friends but also psychiatric patients, whom he worked
with while employed at a hospital, cultural and
historical icons, strangers, celebrities, and himself.
Their work is replete
with historical and pop culture characters, loving family portraits, controversial
icons, and hard core sensibilities.
With more than a hundred miles of Atlantic coastline, quick access to Philadelphia and New York City and close proximity to
historical icons like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the Garden State is a hot spot for realty.