Built on consumerism and the rapid augmentation of profits, progress in our post-industrial age has led to serious environmental imbalances in the most comprehensive sense of the term: an over-consumption of non-renewable raw materials, noise, visual and air pollution, and the extinction of animal and vegetable species.
This is prevalent in the United States since the country is
built on consumerism and a «keeping up with the Jones» mentality.
Not exact matches
Wyrebek's practice is also centered
on the bi-phenomena of capitalist fashion and lifestyle
consumerism, where
building a certain kind of «standardised» body in the media is treated as a new form of religion.
Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects and strategies to create her own political and social messages around
consumerism, mass media, and feminism
on billboards, buses, newspapers,
buildings, and parks for the past four decades.
The work highlights the idiosyncrasy of the Yugoslav situation: a single party socialist state,
built on the legacy of the anti-fascist partisan struggle and principles of solidarity, egalitarianism and self - management, simultaneously immersed in what has been termed «utopian
consumerism».
Glowing turquoise in a clean font with an art deco feel, the art work with a nod to luxury
consumerism was installed regally
on the front of the classically designed stone
building.
Andy Warhol
built an entire oeuvre
on appropriation and repetition, fascinated by both phenomena, as well as by the modern
consumerism.