Sentences with phrase «mass culture»

A cynical, smart movie about the dangers of mass culture gives way to a sentimental embrace of the very thing it's criticizing.

We don t believe in mass culture, we think all of us have hopes and dreams and our vision is simple: Your dreams, our tools.

His vibrant works take inspiration from mass culture in all its forms — from cartoons to fashion, film and music.

From malls to museums, the influence and imagery of punk's past has largely been absorbed into mass culture.

This became synonymous with the influence of popular mass culture on the look and subject matter of avant - garde art at the time.

They reject mass culture along with the dominant economic system and create their own art, music, and festivities.

Will it prefer materials from old mass culture to the latest new wave?

Why not allow mass culture into the museum, when the boundaries between popular and fine art are under pressure everywhere?

As an artist and critic his work typically concerns the role of aesthetics within mass culture.

The idea of a democratic art which can reach many people ultimately must be a notion of some kind of mass culture.

They live at once within the unconscious, on the surface of things, and in mass culture.

Using leftovers and objects from mass culture, he explores class, sexuality, memory, religion, and politics.

In his recent book, George Marsden has chronicled the concern with mass culture as part of the anxiety of the 1950s.

In 1999, Naomi Klein captured the anti-corporate feeling of the decade in «No Logo», but equally observed a generation who are «now finding ways to express their disdain for mass culture not by opting out of it but by abandoning themselves to it entirely — but with a sly ironic twist.»

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

As Johanna Drucker points out, writers tend to mistake art complicit with mass culture for cultural criticism.

Through printed series of postcards and stamps Emily Newman looks at the figure of the spy in American mass culture during the time of the Cold War and in contemporary films and TV series.

«The abstract expressionists were all emotion on the surface,» she said, «and the pop artists were about mass culture, so this of course triggers thinking about the under - structure of art.

He fused popular and mass culture elements from television, advertisements, films, and cartoons, with the techniques of fine art while injecting humor, irony, and recognizable imagery and content into the final product.

Thiebaud's art identifies the objects of mass culture through a unique relationship between exaggerated color and monumental shadows, and Lipstick from 1964 exemplifies that manner.

This formulation, if applied on a global scale, is alarmingly parallel to the language of apartheid's archenemies, Third World members of UNESCO and the UN, who have been demanding a «New World Communication Order» which will honor local cultures and oust the «information imperialism» of that great vulgar leveler, Western mass culture with its mouth wash, blue jeans, and James Bond movies.

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.

Like his predecessors, Rhoades included performative elements in his installations and produced epic thematic cycles, drawing on mass culture to develop a dense weave of images and forms.

Though it has clear precedents in their earlier work, the baroque maximalism of Hirst's and Koons's latest projects represents a departure for both artists, who are known for pieces that reference and appropriate mass culture while still drawing on the formal language of minimalism.

For this show, Alexander explores regionalism and the culturally specific, calling on some thirty artists to consider the ramifications of the «vernacular» — particularly as formulated by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour in Learning from Las Vegas (1972)-- in light of our changing relationship to mass culture during the past four decades.

Guzmán presents an installation of diverse and nonhierarchical rearrangments of images sourced form mass culture and contemporary advertisment.

Invited artists and researchers will analyze strategies and mechanisms of the media and mass culture realm in the era of mass television development of the Cold War era and determine whether some are still used today.

But while this often led the older generation — artists like Hans Haacke, Hanne Darboven and Robert Barry — to work that was visually spare, or barely there, the younger artists have embraced the tools of spectacle — lights, camera, action — and tried to turn them to purposes that push back against mass culture.

Unified mass culture is a Christian concern.

What they didn't realize — or maybe didn't care about — is that this trading in mass culture ephemera would not sustain the humanities.

If any of us ever had illusions that a reformist posture was sufficient, either from a theological perspective or as social policy, the intractability of governmental and economic systems, the growth of massive and seemingly uncontrollable systems of surveillance, military power, and mass culture increasingly narrow the scope of our options to those of resistance and withdrawal.

These non-technological, decentralized expressions of Christian community may well be the best defense against the manipulative, homogenizing drive of commercial mass culture.

The group then added a novel aspect to the protocol involving a 3D pellet mass pre-differentiation stage (2 weeks) towards a chondrogenic progenitor phenotype followed by monolayer expansion of the progenitors which were then differentiated in a second chondrogenic 3D pellet mass culture (for 2 weeks and 5 weeks, respectively) to study their chondrogenic capacity.

The gloomy things «The Pledge» has to say about manhood are antithetical to the heroic rites of Hollywood action - adventure films and professional sports through which American mass culture channels and idealizes male violence.

Mungo Thomson is a Los Angeles - based artist whose work explores mass culture, cosmology, and reception with economy and wit.

Together these pieces demonstrate Liu's core visual vocabulary — which references that of the cyber and the vernacular — and embody her inquiry into the relationship between mass culture, language, identity, and particularly the misconception, miscommunication and hybridization of meaning and discourse.

Moreover, like the works of Warhol and Lichtenstein, the series manipulates commercial media to impart an effect that is specific to painting, allowing the artist to question the limits and possibilities of aesthetic authenticity in an era defined by Western Capitalist mass culture.

Since then it has been flanked by what he called «avant - garde ghosts to the one side, and a changing mass culture on the other», both of which it interacts with to varying degrees.

[14] Greenberg argued that vanguard culture has historically been opposed to «high» or «mainstream» culture, and that it has also rejected the artificially synthesized mass culture that has been produced by industrialization.

In his series of posters with quotes of American politicians Yevgeniy Fiks investigates espionage concepts in the US mass culture and relations between communism and homosexuality used in the United States» propaganda in the 50's -60's.

Design / Writing / Research encapsulated the process of design synthesizing and morphing mass culture elements.

If Pop Art and Minimalism did nothing more than deride mass culture, one could hardly call that cynicism.

In the San Francisco Chronicle Kenneth Baker reports that the work of David Park has «begun to have a restorative impact, rewarding in its viewers a humanistic taste discredited equally by avant - garde theory and by a degraded mass culture.

Painters like Karen Kilimnik made work stemming from the influence of popular culture, creating cursory celebrity portraits, while Elizabeth Peyton took the practice a step further by painting portraits of celebs, musicians, and European monarchs alongside her significant others and members of her social circle, entrenching mass culture's idolization of celebrity in the realm of fine art while at the same time elevating her friends to celebrity status.

Sharrer's use of mass culture situates her as a bridge connecting the socially - engaged art of the 1930s, through the political suppression of the 1950s, to the more ironic commentary of Pop Art.