In the 1960s, thanks to European collectors and curators, Pop Art assumed the mantle of being the most distinctively American art movement, reinforcing stereotypes of the United States as being
consumed by consumerism.
Not exact matches
That is the danger of
consumerism: the measure of life, indeed the
consuming of life,
by consumption, the discontent bred
by the feeling that yesterday's anticipated enough is never enough.
Here Elshtain joins in John Paul II's critique of «
consumerism,» in which lives are
consumed by consuming.
'» There is much and legitimate criticism of
consumerism, and there are few
consumerisms more spiritually and intellectually debilitating than to be
consumed by politics — as in «The personal is the political.»
Being
Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
by William T. Cavanaugh Eerdmans, 103 pages, $ 12 Our globalized world of free - market
consumerism teases the eye with a «surface appearance of diversity,» masking «a stifling homogeneity» that bears resemblance to Andy Warhol's «Orange Disaster # 5,» a painting whose serial imaging of the electric chair removes the sting of death.