Sentences with phrase «from consumerist»

The organization just presented the iPotty with the dubious «worst toy» award after it won 45 percent of the vote, says a report from the Consumerist.

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

The informal continuity of his oeuvre's relentless repetitions makes pointedly disconcerting equivalents of disparate iconographic sources — whether drawn from consumerist or

A fortuitous homage to the very structures of exchange in the Essex market, the installation makes the visitor reflect on their own needs and provides respite from a consumerist condition of coerced supply and demand.

Google «chase southwest disaster» and read the top article from the consumerist to see about people having points posting quickly.

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Because, according to Don Paolo, Christmas is now «a fairy tale from the nativity scene with lullabies and bagpipes, the exclusive support of a capitalist and consumerist economy, transforming the whole of Christianity into civil religion.»

Coming from an hyper - capitalistic and consumerist society, you wouldn't know anything about that

Common among many of the critical comments from the «churched» was the assumption that the «un-churched» had left church, or were in transition between churches, because of unrealistic expectations based on a consumerist mindset.

Here in Nairobi we are not strangers to the western consumerist and hedonistic mentality; far from it.

Consumerist readers are interested primarily in moving quickly from one text to the next in search of things that will excite, titillate, entertain, empower and give them some advantage over others.

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

We expect from him, and even, as they nowadays say, privilege, his uncompromising adversary voice, particularly if it attacks bourgeois, consumerist democracy.

This «normal» me is a conglomerate of consumerist fantasies mingled with the kind of «real» experience that so impresses many of the book's contributors, and it is beyond my capacities to separate one from the other.

Therapeutic, technological, consumerist militarism pervades our public life and promises us security and immunity from every threat.

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

Part of the criticism of «choice» from the left is that it allegedly fosters a purely consumerist attitude to public services at the expense of citizenship.

But it made most of the international press, apart from a few aficionados of Asian cinema, uneasy; they were confounded by the complicated plot and overflowing cast of characters, and in some cases directly repelled by the frank exposures of childish macho bluster and hollow consumerist excess that reflected so accurately the frantic nonsense of the Cannes festival itself.

Nurse of Greenmeadow, combining the harsh gestural surface, the brutal treatment of the paint and the subject, with what was formerly an idealized image designed specifically for its sexiness, here approaches these constructs from a new perspective that again exposes the strange mechanics of image presentation and interpretation in our consumerist, media - drenched society.

Arman's profusion of West African art was collected partly in response to the scarcity he experienced as a child during the Second World War; so too was Andy Warhol's obsessive collecting of the American consumerist ephemera that was absent from his deprived Pittsburgh childhood.

References from Western art history provide points of engagement with Kansas City and Chicago - based artist Patty Carroll's photographic images, which employ distinctly modern elements of décor and consumerist culture to reveal psychological threads of domesticity's sometimes overwhelming tenor.

His series «Cowboys» (1980 — 1992), for instance, in which he rephotographed images from the famous Marlboro advertising campaign, is indebted to Pop art's critical interest in consumerist culture.

Drawing inspiration from the radically confrontational Viennese Actionists and the Happenings of Allan Kaprow and others, McCarthy quickly strayed away from his initial interest in painting and in the 1970s began composing performances with the goal of physically disrupting the sense of material comfort, general apathy, and violent cultural dissolution that he viewed as the results of the United States» consumerist, entertainment - driven mass media and popular culture.

Laying aggressively directive slogans over photographs sourced from magazines, Barbara Kruger often addressed the viewer directly, challenging them to critically assess their influenced, consumerist lives.

But the space feels almost utopian: a beautifully staged ruin made from the rubble of a consumerist society.»

Finding Morris has been a three year project through which I have been looking at the relevance of late Victorian romanticism to a growing turn away from contemporary industrialized consumerist culture.

Polke, meanwhile, offers a whole narrative of Germany of his own, from works from the 1960s, with titles like Sekt für Alle («fizz for all») sending up consumerist West Germany, to the great series of watchtower paintings of the 1980s, which complicatedly recall the fortifications of Nazi prison camps.

The show will present examples of Bickerton's earlier consumerist work as well as his tropically - coloured mixed - media paintings, which explore themes varying from fantastic eroticism and nightmares, to «the end of the world».

The show will include examples of Bickerton's consumerist assemblages from the 1980s and pieces from his early and garishly coloured Travelogues series.

Hyperrealistic paintings which result from a disarming pictorial precision and lead to a melancholy reflection about these new modern urban sceneries, the ones that take shape at street corners, in the suburbs, in the waste of this consumerist era.

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.

This overload of information, flowing from the sculpture, represents the artist's critique of our consumerist «paper society».

(1956), uses consumerist imagery from magazines, advertisements, and comic books to parody media representations of the American dream.

Featuring works that span the duration of Bickerton's career thus far, from the earlier consumerist works up to the recent tropically colored mixed - media paintings of exotic, erotic fantasies and nightmares, Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteria draws from works in Damien Hirst's... go to book page >>

In addition, the imagery and colour schemes for most Pop - art painting and sculpture was taken from high - profile and easily recognizable consumerist or media sources such as: consumer goods, advertising graphics, magazines, television, film, cartoons and comic books.

Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, Pop artists sought to distance themselves from the high - brow nature of Abstract Expressionism by using instantly recognizable recognized imagery (Hamburgers, Comic Strip Characters, Cigarette Butts, Cars, Baseball Glove), as well as modern printmaking technology like screen printing - all making a humorous dig at the consumerist American society.

Another government officials, this time from the Ministry of Commerce, is advocating just the kind of foolish consumerist GDPism that has gotten the U.S. into its current mess.

Take the NOMAD tiny house — its whole raison d'etre seemed to be stopping its owner from living the highly - leveraged, consumerist lifestyle.

Rather than liberating us from our roles as «cogs» in a consumerist machine, the necessity of survival in Ecotopia would likely make us slaves — both materially, and politically.

After all, the plastic bag is one of the ultimate symbols of modern consumerist excess — its sole purpose is to conveniently provide a means of transporting stuff you just bought from the shop to your home.

Influenced by the likes of French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Darwin's theory of evolution, Yong Ho Ji infuses a powerful, primeval intelligence into materials that were once extracted from nature and transformed by consumerist processes.

The Columbus Dispatch reports (via Consumerist) that Brown took a break from her usual job of «evangeliz [ing] to strippers in San Diego» and flew to Ohio late week after reading about «Foxhole strippers camping out in front of the church during worship services in recent weeks, many dancing in bikinis to music from George's bright - orange Dodge Challenger.»

(Consumerist, English Professor: I Was Booted From Starbucks Over Bagel Linguistics)

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(Consumerist, Woman Fired From McDonald's For Letting Adrian Peterson Use The Bathroom)

This week, I saw (via Consumerist) that companies like Boloco, a Boston burrito restaurant, are using their own social media followers and community to try to solve crimes such as the theft of a safe from one of their stores.

(The Washington Post, California becomes first state to ban children under 18 from using tanning beds)(via Consumerist)

(Consumerist, Man In Cow Suit Steals 26 Gallons Of Milk From Walmart)

(Consumerist, Burgled Domino's Delivery Guy Ordered to Pay Back Money Stolen From Him)

Via Consumerist I found this article from MarketWatch on what motorists should say (and not say) to police officers when they are pulled over.