Sentences with phrase «modern consumerist»

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.

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Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Loznitsa has only just given us his searing documentary Austerlitz, about modern - day consumerist and tourist attitudes to the Nazi concentration camps.

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.

A small sampling of these: our degradation of the environment; daily murders worldwide; and the consumerist ethos that seems to drive modern life.

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.

Inside this issue, we start with Barbara Kruger's new major site - specific installation at Modern Art Oxford, alongside her iconic 1980s paste - ups that continue to critique our consumerist culture.

The images in the new solo exhibition in Paris see the street artist working in Posca markers on catalogue pages, the beautifully drawn classical figures contrasting magnificently with the consumerist advertising of the modern world.

This new placing of the character plays in a humorous way with the two distant times represented, the historical, mythical and sometimes biblical imagery of the past, coming up against the ordinary materialistic and consumerist attitude of modern times.

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.

Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along with the capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the modern world, is harming Mother Earth.