Sentences with phrase «mass cultural images»

Inspired partly by the French critical theorist Roland Barthes, who viewed mass cultural images as signs freighted with latent meaning to be deciphered, she first gained attention for a series of artworks starkly displaying newspaper snippets (headlines, photographs), forcing viewers to examine the way they responded to media's authoritative voice.

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Such processes deny all cultural memories and reduce the richness of life into images of mass consumption.

Virginia Stem Owens in her book The Total Image notes how the mass - cultural acquiescence seen in the paid - time religious broadcasters is part of a broader infatuation by evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity with mass commercial and advertising culture.

Since the 1970s, Muntadas has given attention to «media landscapes» (mass media, symbols, images and slogans) that allow him to investigate contemporary phenomena associated with political, cultural and educational dynamics, revealing and denouncing its instrinsic mechanisms and opening up a broader scrutiny of the human condition in an age of advanced capitalism.

He chooses images from mass culture to talk about politics, art, painting, cultural issues, taste, the material world, pleasure, power, sexuality, gender and the role of the artist's external life in the larger culture.

His 2010 Tate Modern retrospective, Pure Beauty, highlighted these early text - and - image paintings as well as his influential 1980s photo - based works, which explore the cultural and artistic impact of mass media; a topic that reverberates to this day.

With a critical eye to the ways in which images are used within mass media and the photographic medium is viewed in the cultural landscape as a whole, the artist employed early methods of appropriation, and in one series, «Stills» shows the way the potential of human life literally hangs in the balance in a collection of press images of people falling from buildings.

The book finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean - Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall, tracing the lasting impact of such seemingly disparate cultural phenomena as voguing, hacking and the use of audio and film as a kind of a globally available, open source language in art that deals with the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.

This idiom takes on special meaning when applied to the West's preoccupation with certain stereotypes in contemporary Chinese art — images of the Red Guards, Mao Zedong and panda bears — as well as to the fetishized mass - consumption of cultural objects that satisfy its imagination of a new China in transformation.

Flood has been making his lace paintings since the early 90s; their process of manufacture and slightly kitschy image derived from actual lace encourages us to look at these seductive beauties with a jaundiced eye; 2) The exhibition includes site - specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade that remix pop culture and critique systems of mass cultural distributions such as rock videos and albums.

Here we return to Warhol's enduring aesthetic — the artist's concerns with death are again suppressed by that of celebrity, as we leave behind Warhol's obsessive electric chairs, or car crashes, and swiftly return to the artist's fascination with the mass production of the image, repetition, and commercial cultural value.