Sentences with phrase «cultural obsession»

And it would be too cynical to conclude that everyone contributing to this body of work is simply out to exploit cultural obsessions for a fast buck.

This gets back to the broader of issue of our love and indeed worship of money in the church, an idolatry that is a near perfect reflection of the broader American cultural obsession with money.

For his second solo show with the gallery, Hull shifts his focus from the themes relating to the Russian mystic Gurdjeiff to the topic of Egypt as cultural obsession.

Set up like a documentary following a group of vampires in New Zealand, it brilliantly spoofs the new cultural obsession with these creatures of the night.

Honigman criticizes the preference of art market for young artists, which for her comes from a broader cultural obsession with youth, while Mattera poses a question if ageism in art is even legal.

And because of our recent cultural obsession with the microbiome, in the past couple of decades, science has been pursuing the topic with fervor.

The work's stemmed violence also probes the unsettling gap between real and surrogate, a common cultural obsession from the fetish objects of West Africa to the dismembered mannequins of Hans Bellmer and Cindy Sherman, and Maurizio Cattelan's melancholy take on the Bremen Town Musicians.

Annie Leibovitz's «Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch» is about the closest Masters comes to the post-Warholian pop cultural obsession of emerging artists scattering the Frieze London tent, a collective fascination with the Kanyes, Clintons and #NSFWs of recent, to extremely recent history pointing to the total infiltration of mass media, post-2000.

And to be honest, parents are up against a lot of competition — between junk food marketing and the preponderance of crazy unhealthy food flooding the landscape in combination with the media and cultural obsession with thinness, it's amazing more of us don't just completely short - circuit.

By selecting and reprinting preexisting imagery, Heinecken developed an elegant and economical strategy for exploring various American cultural obsessions: war, sex, and food.

What's you response to the cultural obsession with positivity — is it inspirational or just plain annoying?

And, being good westerners, we've allowed our cultural obsession for safety to define our lives as Christians.

The following excerpt is from Girard's essay in a recent issue on «Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire,» in which he contends that anorexia and bulimia are driven by a cultural obsession with being thin.

Our cultural obsession with passion as a prerequisite for work threatens to cut vocational formation off at the head.

Here in Philly, cheesesteaks, hoagies and roast pork sandwiches are civic icons, tourist draws, cultural obsessions — and, most importantly, beloved meals.

While our cultural obsessions with deep fried sticks of starch may be a bit much, I have to admit that they are pretty good.

But despite our cultural obsession with dinosaurs, there is much to their story that has been left untold until now.

As this cultural obsession with work continues to clamp down on us, the harder it becomes to feel like there is space for true inner peace.

It might be symptomatic of our cultural obsession with consumption.

This negative pattern stopped only when I began to separate myself from the cultural obsession with controlling female bodies.

With our first Mini-Podcast, our Tribe Founder will be talking all about the pitfalls of our cultural obsession with looking good and why we need to focus on feeling good if we are ever going to love our bodies.

The cultural obsession with athleisure has now reached the beauty industry, resulting in post-workout skin care and sweatproof makeup that's perfect for gym selfies.

It's a classic high - concept sketch that's stuffed with good jokes and a layer of commentary on our cultural obsession with Trump over everything.

To complain that The Neon Demon lacks substance or that it doesn't have anything to say about our cultural obsession with beauty is to miss the crazy, cracked pageant unfolding in front of you.

It's not exactly subtle social commentary, but it most definitely has something to do with our cultural obsession with pretty much anything related to cats.

This documentary explores Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hyper modern societies.

So far this week, we've indulged our nostalgia for toys and candy, and now it's time for reminiscing over another cultural obsession: movies!

Eating — and eating well — is a cultural obsession in New York, where the city's best restaurants range from temples to tasting menus to casual, jovial,... Read More

Eating — and eating well — is a cultural obsession in New York, where the city's best restaurants range from temples to tasting menus to casual, jovial, family - style spots.

It's a meme machine, a water - cooler mainstay, and a cultural obsession.

In 2020, when the expansion is unveiled, Abess and a colleague will open «Vices,» a show connecting colonialism and class to our cultural obsessions with caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and chocolate — all through the lens of visual culture.

Cleanliness is a cultural obsession.

She can be slyly autobiographical and far - ranging in the subjects of her critique, which include institutional sexism, our cultural obsession with cleanliness and the accepted power structures of the art world itself.

The works are a commentary on the fleeting nature of time, the fragility of life, the representation of women, and our cultural obsession with disposable objects.

Matthew Schlagbaum focuses his attention on our cultural obsession with happiness, and the unstable specifics of how it is depicted and obtained.

Investigating the intersection of science and art, Bruno looks at our cultural obsession with techniques of imaging and its effect on the privacy of bodies and space.

The exhibition features innovative work by eight local artists who will examine our cultural obsession with selfies and our narcissistic desire to record and manipulate digital representations of ourselves.

(1983) signifies the artist's interest not only in commercial visuals, but also in the concept of the new, a cultural obsession that defined the decade.

Is cleanliness an American cultural obsession?

Of course, lawyers are only one example of our cultural obsession with rankings.

In fact, writer Stephanie Dolgoff4 suggests that our cultural obsession with appearance and thinness keeps us from focusing on the more important, and often more difficult - to - discuss, things in life.