Sentences with phrase «commodity culture»

Bickerton first made his name in the 1980s as part of a splashy quartet of artists (including Jeff Koons) whose sly send - ups of commodity culture made them darlings of the then - booming market.

Merz was the only major female player in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s involving a group of artists that rejected Italy's preoccupation with commodity culture in favor of «poor» materials — objects like rags, trash, and soil.

After years of suspicion toward commodity culture, the thing that made painting politically problematic at the time was the notion that an artwork could be visually pleasurable, i.e., an object, something to consume, something that makes you happy, something that was easy, that didn't make you work.

His work derives from a culture of «material excess and imperial gluttony» where «Pure carnival joy harmonizes unselfconsciously with commodity culture.»

Rosenquist has described the development of his perspective on commodity culture in numerous interviews; having lived on the poverty line as a young artist in New York, he felt estranged from the capitalist system: «My values had changed... In a country where capitalists advertise in media — I lost track of all that.

The Heathers exhibition in turn takes this idea of appropriation and depoliticisation of a post-Pop Art space further, by presenting works that reintegrate popular, or more specifically, commodity culture back into the artwork, begging the question, «what's the difference anyway?»

Through his method of «unbranding,» the artist exposes how commodity culture's generalizations about race, gender, and ethnicity have come to seem almost natural to consumers.

This Buddha was holding a MasterCard welcome sign that the artist feels is a metaphor for commodity culture and consumption, a major part of the «global culture dynamic.»

«The Shadows Took Shape,» which borrows its title from a poem by the renowned jazz musician Sun Ra, is an exhibition about channeling technological visions not toward commodity culture — the standard beneficiary of scientific ingenuity — but toward a release from present constraints into a broadly self - determined future.

Within the commodity culture those realities that refuse to assume the form of things, forfeit their value.

Considering issues of representation and pre-determined shifts in scale, Lins offers a knowing likeness of contemporary detritus and commodity culture.

Over the past dozen years, Alex Da Corte has developed a highly distinctive practice, one focused primarily on fashioning (and / or refashioning) overripe bits of commodity culture and then putting conceptual pressure on them until whatever uncanniness they contain starts leaking out.

In what is often classified as a neoexpressionist style, Basquiat drew on social and political themes like systematic racism, identity politics and commodity culture.

They can enjoy the «burgeoning geometry» of New York City or of commodity culture.

Robinson's style has been linked to Postmodernism and Neo-Expressionism, but perhaps most importantly, his painting project is concerned with the aesthetics of commodity culture.

What most hurts contemporary art, a lowering of standards in the name of critical theory — or a commodity culture that breeds amnesia about past experiments?

But when the failings of commodity culture are your subject — and let's not forget, please, that art is a commodity — what happens when the resulting work accrues significant financial worth and, in the long run, a stamp of approval from an august institution like the Met?

In our contemporary atmosphere of political theater, shocking wealth disparity and commodity culture, the insight, resistance and sly commentary of Lawler's work feels as poignant and corrective as it has ever been.

Art reduces easily to history, the history of a commodity culture.

Today the innovative work of artists such as Elad Lassry, Josephine Meckseper, and Ryan Trecartin demonstrates that commodity culture, display, and the cult of celebrity maintain a strong resonance.

In Not Everyone Feels Like They Have To Win All The Time both artists lampoon the inherit seriousness of art - making as they address themes of faith, death, failure and commodity culture.

In Adriano Costa's installation, From My Body Comes, Through Your Body Goes, an enigmatic composition by different materials, shapes, textures and colours broadens the boundary between art and non-art, precious and valueless, while what is considered as our commodity culture is transformed into a symbolic universe.

The exhibition, featuring various artistic practices, follows a rich history of persona, but offer fresh approaches that critique or celebrate notions of celebrity, commodity culture, reality and fiction.

Hank's interest in commodity culture and identity through multiple perspectives shows viewers how images / objects can diverge from common understandings of Black life in the Western tradition.

In addition to «commodity culture,» framing and seeing (from multiple perspectives) has played a big role in Hank's work.

The combination of real and synthetic woods and original artefacts creates an unsettling tension between the authentic and the artificial, continuing Darbyshire's investigation into the visual language of commodity culture.

The prints both embrace and parody the urbane sophistication and excess of youth and commodity culture, simultaneously critiquing and colluding with its very nature.

He has also initiated a series of altered share certificates, now - obsolete documents referring to this same violent, turbulent history of colonial trade, ownership and power, as well as subtly referencing the contemporary art world's participation in commodity culture.

Drawing on themes such as celebrity, death, and commodity culture, the silkscreens are seen as metaphors for American culture and the fickle nature of fame in a capitalist society.

McFarland constructs a sculptural requiem for the things born out of a commodity culture.

Around this time, academic critics like Hal Foster championed Prince's work as part of a postmodern critique of commodity culture and as a definitive break with the fusty traditions of high modernism.