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Exoticism. Exoticism (from exotic) is a trend in art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and drew inspiration from them. This often involved surrounding foreign cultures with mystique and fantasy which owed more to the culture of the people doing the exoticism than to the exotic cultures ...
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour,” in the words of the English explorer, linguist, and writer, Sir Richard F. Burton (1821–1890). The arts of the East were also considered quaint and uncorrupted by industrial capitalism.
Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in art and design, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations since the late 19th-century. In music exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times (e.g. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Tzigane for Violin and ...
Jan 1, 2014 · However, art remains in danger of neither producing ‘exoticism ’ nor ‘global art’, but ‘exotic parodies’. Western art on the other hand has to remain aware of the inconsistencies in its civilizing process in order to realize the continuity of the exotic and barbaric within itself in accordance with the principle of the “ Ungleichzeitigkeit des Gleichzeitigen ” (Ette 2006 : 380).
- Klaus von Beyme
- klaus.von.beyme@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de
- 2015
By this point exoticism had become a full-blown mania. The artists that began a subtle flirtation with concepts of the exotic in their work eventually saw these same concepts show up in department store merchandise with textile prints and imports from China, India, Turkey, Iran and the latest market, Japan.
1910s, Victor Segalen redefined exoticism as an "aesthetics of diversity," despite its prob-lematic politics of power. The cultural, lin-guistic, psychological, and epistemological dynamics in exoticism encompass complex relations that are underexplored. We there-fore think that a more fluid and relational notion of the exotic is needed, for ...
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Rejecting the reductive nineteenth-century versions of exoticism whose stereotypical simplicity, ideological overtones and complicity with the French colonial project risked (as Segalen had foreseen) discrediting the term, the late twentieth century witnessed a process of reappropriation and reconsideration of the problematic mechanics of relation to the exotic.
