Sentences with phrase «of modern consumerism»

Shot in Sian Ka'an, a UNESCO World Heritage site and biosphere reserve in Mexico, the project depicts the pervasiveness of the environmental impact of modern consumerism.

With the excesses of modern consumerism in mind, Hong Hao, who trained in printmaking, digitally scans the bases of everyday objects to visually deconstruct their functional properties.

The working group on the Anthropocene — part of the International Union of Geological Sciences — favours a date around 1950, when nuclear explosions and the start of modern consumerism started to have long - term effects on the biosphere.

The right to decide what to think rather than being told what to think reflects the neoliberal values of modern consumerism a situation supported by the Australian government encouraging women to empower themselves through informed decision making regarding maternity care [43].

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Paradoxically, this process frustrates the spiritual desires of many modern secular people, who are unsatisfied with thin consumerism and wish to participate in something greater than themselves.

The surge of disposable capital in post-World War II consumerism gave impetus for the debate over modern society.

Also up this week: a Criterion Channel original documentary on the world of Yasujiro Ozu, a short and a feature about modern consumerism, and a delectable culinary double bill.

Examined Life (Unrated) The current mindset of America is the subject of this documentary, directed by Astra Taylor, which takes a number of leading academic intellectuals like Cornel West, Peter Singer and Anthony Appiah away from academia and into the streets of America where they weigh - in on cultural issues ranging from consumerism to individualism to modern morality.

In a time of stress, uncertainty, rampant consumerism, and divisive politics, one could easily succumb to the modern dog - eat - dog mentality.

The exhibition spans Warhol's iconic career from his early illustrative works of the 1950s, through Pop Art's 1960s heyday, until his untimely death in 1987 — addressing the artist's exploration of every facet of modern life, from consumerism and commissions to Communist politics.

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.

Her work entails the investigation of what she calls the «evolution of landscape», a process started and affected by modern life - styles and consumerism.

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

Sooke protested a bit too much, doing down the previous big deal in modern art, Abstract Expressionism, in order to enhance the revolutionary nature of Pop in its fascination and appropriation of the tropes of advertising and consumerism.

Bhabha's «neo-primitivism» has a politically correct nod to consumerism, globalism, diversity, and Mideast wars, but with all the superiority and condescension of the primitivism before it, when modern artists and collectors were just discovering African art.

The series of sculptures are entitled Sediment Salad and they are comprised of tropical fruits, vegetables and consumer products dipped into concrete, decaying over the course of the exhibition and reflecting on modern day consumerism.

J. Morrison's show title and theme are a play off the «12 Days of Christmas» and in modern commercial times the «25 Days of Christmas,» giving an artist's alternative view of holiday consumerism.

«Through a variety of surreal, often grotesque sculptures he examines the rapid rise of consumerism in modern - day China and the fraught relationship with its more austere Communist past.»

Her concepts delve into the modern dilemmas of consumerism and the compulsions of material trappings.

Examining the modern dilemmas of consumerism and the trappings of our twenty - first - century, Centeno attempts to bring a more meaningful encounter to the viewer.

Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists» focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in «brand - new» types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance.

At once hypnotizing and unsettling, Chagas» photographs of people dressed in modern clothing, yet with their heads covered in traditional african masks or plastic bags, critique consumerism in modern society.

In «Young and Innocent», Hill combines folk artist's depictions of children as innocents in bucolic settings in a series of portraits of urban children who have embraced modern living influences including materialism, consumerism and drug use.

Sourcing prevalent facets of modern Japanese culture like anime, Manga, and yokai horror films, Kenichi Yokono's meticulous carvings contrast rampant notions of globalization and consumerism with the overwhelming «cuteness» (or kawaii) found in his country's commercial vernacular.

In his signature style of modern art, Rosenquist is noted for his immaculately painted canvases whose complex layers and juxtapositions of banal imagery commented sharply on the values of American consumerism.

But with the rise of cheaply mass - produced plastics, increased levels of consumerism, and planned obsolescence in many products, our modern culture now creates waste on an unsustainable scale.