Sentences with phrase «critique of consumerism»

He pleaded for swift global action through a critique of consumerism and wasteful development.

Edson Chagas uses photography as a process in which he not only investigates daily life but also employs images in a pointed critique of consumerism.

FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between «high» and «low» culture, but recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media, architecture, and site - specific / archival research into their work.

Almost from the beginning, the work included references to popular culture and mixed eroticism and folly with a critique of consumerism.

Since it resembles a banknote, it can be read as well as an early critique of the consumerism and overall interest in profit.

Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964) has developed a practice which melds the aesthetic language of modernism with a profound critique of consumerism In her shop windows, vitrines, installations, photographs, films and magazine projects she draws a direct correlation to the way consumer culture defines and circumvents subjectivity and sublimates the key instruments of individual political agency.

Not exact matches

Here Elshtain joins in John Paul II's critique of «consumerism,» in which lives are consumed by consuming.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

With that come some not - too - subtle nods to the history of the zombie genre, lest you forget that the the shambling brain - munchers started out as a critique of mindless American consumerism.

We also need to listen to authors such as Heather Rogers, who has undertaken a devastating critique of «ethical consumerism» and today's much - touted «green» solutions — carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes — in her book, Green Gone Wrong.

With humour and ultra-saturated colours, Martin Parr's images critique the contemporary culture of consumerism.

Masterfully and humorously critiquing the rampant consumerism of the postwar Western world, the artist is best known for a series of 1960s sculptures that commodifed his own bodily residue, such as cans of his excrement, balloons filled with his breath, and eggs featuring his fingerprints.

The three «still life» assemblages of chrome objects included in the THE SPECULATIVE GAZE embody a similar duality of material lust and a sort of moral hesitance; as dimensional «vanitas» images they contain a network of objects and their attendant associations, raising a critique of contemporary consumerism and economic insatiability through this material dialogue.

Indeed, the relationship between popular culture and Pop Art is explored from all angles, discussing its interpretation as critique or celebration of consumerism, mass production and contemporary graphic art; whether Pop is simply another manifestation of popular culture or subversive criticism of it.

Beginnings of the pop art were related to the irony shown to the fast growing society, life, space and design images inevitably changed by consumerism, as well as to the critique of the elitist world of high culture and abstraction in art.

The duo's signature ceramic sculptures serve as a bold contemplation of past art and present culture and, on occasion, a critique of contemporary consumerism.

His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II.

They also boldly took on subversive topics: Hartigan's work, for instance, explored themes of sexual identity and critiqued bridal imagery and consumerism decades before it became fashionable to do so.

Opening: «Jonathan Horowitz: Occupy Greenwich» at the Brant Foundation Art study Center Though he scored a big hit with his project of paying 700 people $ 20 each to paint black dots on white canvases at last year's Frieze New York, Jonathan Horowitz is best known for his post-Pop art appropriations, consumerism critiques and politically engaged installations and videos.

Despite Kruger's insistence that she is not an appropriation artist, she often uses found images and text — or, in the case of Performa, a clothing label — to critique consumerism by borrowing its branding techniques.

The exhibition was the last project Hamilton directly participated in and illustrates the array of mediums, genres and themes the artist employed and approached over the course of his career: from photography, drawing and prints, to industrial design, advertising and the digital manipulation of images; from portrait, self - portrait and interiors, to metalinguistic investigations — for instance on the limitations of different forms of representation and the relationship between vision and movement — via a political critique and a reflection on consumerism and mass culture.

Using collage as a form of interpretation and critique, Hirschhorn presents intellectual history and philosophical theory much as he does everyday objects and images, and poses questions about aesthetic value, moral responsibility, political agency, consumerism, and media spectacle.

At once hypnotizing and unsettling, Chagas» photographs of people dressed in modern clothing, yet with their heads covered in traditional african masks or plastic bags, critique consumerism in modern society.

Heavily influenced by the idea of feminism, Kruger made a career out of critiquing consumerism and human desire with her silkscreen prints and site - specific installations comprised of films, audio and projections.

While there have been some valid feminist critiques about Dove's emphasis on beauty and empowerment through consumerism, Dove and Unilever's other Sustainable Living Brands have, by and large, lived up to the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals.