Sentences with phrase «mass consumerism»

While reporting on the conditions created by the mass consumerism of electronics in places like this is important, so too is keeping a close watch on the regulations of e-waste disposal and ending rampant consumerism.

With its delicately painted Ballantyne branding, the sculpture ignited ideas about the everyday ephemera of mass consumerism in the New York art scene — Andy Warhol made his Campbell's soup cans just two years later.

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, and founding member of the artist collective Group Material, which has organized exhibitions on themes such as the U.S.'s involvement in Central America, AIDS, education, and mass consumerism.

The imagery and objects rendered allude to the mass consumerism that rapidly developed during the lead - in to this moment (the «40s and «50s) in a resounding response to pop cultural idioms provided by television, film, advertisements, and literature.

Taking its title from Laing's 1964 exhibition at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, Source and Stimulus highlights certain themes that recur in the works of all three artists, including the Space Race, sexual liberation, mass consumerism, and politics.

Tired of Abstract Expressionism and dreary Social Realism, artists embraced the cheap and cheerful iconography of mass consumerism.

Each work is retailed at roughly 2,000 times the price of the IKEA hanger, proposing a double poke at mass consumerism, and at the art world's propensity to transform dust to gold by validation of a gallery's white walls.

The explosion of popular music and television was reflected in the Pop - Art movement, whose images of Hollywood celebrities, and iconography of popular culture, celebrated the success of America's mass consumerism.

A style of art whose images reflected the popular culture and mass consumerism of 1960s America.

The domestic scale of the television screen on which the video plays symbolizes the sweeping changes that transformed Chinese society in the 1980s and 1990s, as collectivism was replaced by mass consumerism and aspirational individualism.

For many American artists in the late 1950s the prevailing artistic trend of Abstract Expressionism could no longer express anything relevant in a world dominated by popular culture and mass consumerism.

As for many Japanese artists of his generation, Kudo's intellectual outlook was formed by experiences of destruction and deprivation endured during the War and by the subsequent rise of mass consumerism on the ruins of a tradition - minded order.

On the other hand, being highly critical of religion, mass consumerism and the general darker side of human nature, Peter Adamyan uses pop culture imagery to comment on the contemporary society.

Through performances, films, texts, and most importantly sculpture incorporating found materials and household objects, he sought to subvert the separation between art and lived experience, and to interrogate mass consumerism and the rise of technology.

Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg gained popularity, however it was Andy Warhol's brash, repetitive prints of celebrities, rock stars and objects from mass consumerism that permeated modern culture.

The holiday season, for all the mass consumerism and the cynicism that it inspires, is really about being happy, taking time to reflect on everything you have experienced the rest of the year and cherish the memories you have made and the people you have around you.

It's really easy to be frugal when you opt out of mass consumerism — more stuff when you already have an abundance of material goods isn't going to make you any happier (regardless of what advertisers and marketers would like you to believe).

Many people took for granted double - digit interest yields on their bank deposits to help finance a rise in mass consumerism.

We're told they represent something about mass consumerism and the zombification of western culture, but for practical purposes they're an arsenal of zombie killing implements.

Today, this concept has evolved into a lifestyle movement that rejects the notion of trends and mass consumerism.

But Clemens is by no means the only designer elevating the ordinary emblems of mass consumerism to extraordinary heights — or at least pasting them on t - shirts.

We are continually barraged with messages that promote mass consumerism.

Capitalism gives rise to a secular version of Protestantism that operates through the culture of mass consumerism and the ideology of privatized self - fulfillment.

Not exact matches

o) In the Western societies too there is an alienation in consumerism, in work that neglects human values, in various forms of exploitation of humans, manipulated by the means of mass communication.

In terms of the former, liberal Protestants were concerned about unbridled consumerism and an emerging mass culture while neo-evangelicals sought to buttress a world and life view that curbed socialism and a confessionless moralism on the part of liberal Protestants.

Similarly, other productions, such as Billy Elliot, focus very much on the reality of the politics at the time of the Miners Strike in 1984 and shows such as We Will Rock You and Chicago The Musical looked at consumerism and mass identity and the power of the media respectively to focus on just a few of their themes.

«I hope to draw parallels between the American industrial system, transitioning from a past of heavy industry, factories, and teamsters and the disembodied present of electronic mass - media, surface advertising, and consumerism - so clearly embodied in Times Square,» explained Meckseper, «The critical placement of the pumps is a conceptual gesture that raises questions about business and capital; land use and resources; wealth and decay; decadence and dependence.»

Peskine bridges the gap between graphic design and fine art by using the same design aesthetic to appeal to the masses, as his work often touches on the ideology of consumerism and mass consumption.

Considered a forefather to Pop Art, Paolozzi harbored a life - long interest in consumerism and the mass media.

Coventry began to revisit the McDonald's concept a year ago, isolating and cropping parts of the logo to yield new paintings that link Minimalism, Modernism, and Pop Art with elements of mass - consumerism.

Bayrle's thematic investigations have ranged from a visual analysis of mass culture and consumerism to reflections on the intersection of technology with global politics.

Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects and strategies to create her own political and social messages around consumerism, mass media, and feminism on billboards, buses, newspapers, buildings, and parks for the past four decades.

For the last forty or so years, Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects to create political and social statements concerning the topics of consumerism, mass media and feminism, and we're glad to say that she did not lose a bit of her artistic punch.

Alloway's theory of art reflecting the concrete materials of modern life gave way to an interest in mass - media and consumerism.

Although Pop arose in distinct forms within each region, artists expressed a shared interest in mass media, consumerism, and figuration

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.

Dicker, Lurk & Skew critically reflects on hyper - masculinity, musical aesthetics, and mass - produced global consumerism.

Recent collages, with thick black outlines, contrast with earlier ones, confronting consumerism and the dehumanising effect of mass culture.

The Italian - born, Los Angeles - based video artist Marco Brambilla creates works in large - scale video collages, including executions in 3D, incorporating colorful, over-the-top imagery that ranges from mass media and consumerism to ethereal and otherworldly realms.

On view through April 7, After Industry will immerse audiences in an aesthetically rich experience, while also providing a platform to engage with important underlying themes, including consumerism, human impact on the environment, and the effects of mass production.

She tackles the big questions surrounding: identity in a time of mass, overpowering consumerism; privacy in an era of surveillance; the interfacing of humans and machines; the relationship between real and virtual worlds; and new bio-ethics surrounding practices such as growing parts of the human body from DNA samples.

As children of the «60s, the Pictures artists were also exposed to the rise of consumerism that both drove emerging mass media like television and was celebrated in it.

Encouraging reflection on consumerism, globalization, and mass media, her pieces function as archeological remnants of contemporary culture.

The series explores the phenomenon of mass - production and consumerism in contemporary Chinese society, as well as the role of the country in the export industry.

Drawing on her background in graphic design, Kruger adopts the same visual tools as mass media; the appropriated images and texts acting as both social commentary and political agitator commenting on religion, sex, racial and gender stereotypes, consumerism, corporate greed, and power.

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.

The movement emerged amid the post-World War II explosions of capitalist consumerism and mass media, as artists explored new modes of mechanical production, often by taking commonplace consumer goods and pop - cultural icons as their subject matter.

The glut of books, articles, dissertations and exhibitions on the artist seems to always tread the same critical territory — celebrity, consumerism, «business art» and mass production.

With a body of work spanning 50 years, the artist continues to exude a piercing relevance in a time of pressing over-population, consumerism, the anthropocenean mass extinction, and further species - self endangerment.

American artist Barbara Kruger's distinctively graphic works are commentaries on topics such as feminism, sexuality, politics, consumerism, and mass media.