In a mash - up of old and new references, Feinstein melds elements of period styles (particularly the Baroque and Rococo), Christain iconography, or engrained fairy tales such as those of Hans Christian Anderson with contemporary phenomena like Disney cartoons. (artspace.com)
Since the 1970s, Muntadas has given attention to «media landscapes» (mass media, symbols, images and slogans) that allow him to investigate contemporary phenomena associated with political, cultural and educational dynamics, revealing and denouncing its instrinsic mechanisms and opening up a broader scrutiny of the human condition in an age of advanced capitalism. (palazzograssi.it)
In elaborating this view, Amato offers perceptive treatments of such contemporary phenomena as the counterculture, affirmative action, the escalating reactions to the chauvinisms of race, class, and sex, and the continuing threat of the Nietzschean denigration of the past. (firstthings.com)