Sentences with phrase «capitalist consumerism»

Tompkins makes her material sing anew — formally and thematically; a transubstantiation of medium and meaning occurs that, in its fearless collision with normative culture through crops and alteration, becomes a feminist act, an exemplar of female agency in a sea of high capitalist consumerism that would otherwise deny it.

The movement emerged amid the post-World War II explosions of capitalist consumerism and mass media, as artists explored new modes of mechanical production, often by taking commonplace consumer goods and pop - cultural icons as their subject matter.

The objects made by Lins — a Bell telephone, a VKhUTEMAS model, a table built to the specifications set out by Enzo Mari in his open - source manual Autoprogettazione of 1974 — are at the same time models for some other form of artistic production: things beyond the categories of craft, art, design, sculpture, image, capitalist consumerism, or communist nostalgia.

And of course, despite there being many champions of economic globalisation and the spread of capitalist consumerism, can we remember any politician making the positive, proud case for free movement of people, welcoming immigrants and the valuable enriching cultural accoutrements they bring?

Not exact matches

There are many subcultures in democratic capitalist America, some of them damaged by hedonism and consumerism.

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.

But neither he nor his friend Gerhard Richter could ignore Beuys's emphasis on conceptual practices, and the two budding painters dreamed up a highly ironic style they christened «Capitalist Realism,» in which they conflated the mad consumerism of the West with drab, Communist Bloc socialism.

As a response to Pop Art and life in post-war Germany, the painter established Capitalist Realism, an ironic use of consumerism with the manipulation of popular culture and advertising images.

He created his own German Pop movement called Kapitalistischer Realismus (Capitalist Realism) that decried the banality of consumerism.

No more pesky voters to disempower them, no more «eeeville» capitalists with their ugly «inequities», no more «wasteful» consumerism, just knee - bent serfs awestruck at their godlike wisdom.

And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the «age of convenience» was over.