Sentences with phrase «modern celebrity culture»

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux has taken a direct shot at one of the staples of modern celebrity culture, banning selfies on the red carpet of this year's event.

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In addition to the expected human drama that comes along with any reality gameshow, the StartupBus is also a fascinating look at a modern pathway to (relative, at least) fame in a culture obsessed with celebrity.

There is little need for another novel satirizing the narcissism and superficiality of our celebrity - obsessed culture, but what distinguishes Beha's book is the insight that modern people, now deprived of being the apple of God's eye, must create elaborate and dramatic false idols to satisfy the human need to know that someone, anyone, is taking stock of their lives, however contrived and superficial they may be.

Exposed, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on display through April 17, 2011, examines how voyeurism pervades our everyday life, focusing particular attention on 19th - and 20th - century photography, celebrity culture and the growth of new surveillance technologies.

Modern culture is reflected in his humorous portraits, landscapes and interiors by means of familiar political and celebrity figures, chain restaurants and box stores, and well - known brands.

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.

Heinke's canvases investigate contemporary and modern politics; popular culture; celebrity; glamour; beauty and decay.

Prison and the disciplinary society, Byron as a modern day celebrity, the digital and agricultural commons, culture after transatlantic slavery, and the legacies of «68 and Nottingham's radical past, were examined in projects at an Elizabethan hall, an empty shop, a unique medieval village, Byron's ancestral home and a former prison.

Worked as a fund - raiser for the New York Museum of Modern Art, before achieving major acclaim as a contemporary Neo-Pop artist, best known for his gigantic sculptures of banal and / or pop - culture objects such as toys, animals and celebrities, made from unusual, highly coloured materials.

Employing recognizable objects, images of celebrities and symbols from popular culture, this updated form of Pop - Art also drew inspiration from Dada (in their use of readymades and found objects), and from modern conceptualism.

Those concerns are heightened when the adoration is not just a one - sided thing in which the object of the celebrity treatment takes no part in it and does not encourage it, but one in which the object rather seems to enjoy and participate in that phenomenon, and / or takes to making general public pronouncements on various issues, which is a common element in modern American celebrity culture.