repackages, reconstitutes and rekindles
our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.
Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes, and rekindles
our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.
Austin - based artist collaborative Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes and rekindles
our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.
From found magazine images of distorted human body to investigation of
consumerist desires, notions the late artist handled in her humorous and vivid practice still seem to endure.
His recent retrospective confronted viewers with the true (but not quite hidden) cost of fulfilling
our consumerist desires»
In particular, the film explores the commercialisation of childhood, and a corresponding tendency to infantile behaviour in adulthood, bringing to life the «little monsters» created by
consumerist desire.
Not exact matches
Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and
consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our
desires, wants, needs.
In our jaded,
consumerist society we still aspire to family life and
desire it for ourselves because somewhere deep down we recognise that family life is good, beautiful and true.
However, instead of creating slickly - made celebrations of contemporary culture or painting commodities that Americans
desired, as Warhol and James Rosenquist habitually did, Polke subverted the colourful,
consumerist optimism with tawdry materials, deliberately off - key printing and random splashes of paint that implied a world that was not rising ever - upwards, but slowly fracturing apart.
The disenchantment that followed the
desire to adapt to a new liberal and
consumerist model, has resulted for one part of that generation to find shelter in ultra-nationalism, that now flourishes in the region.