Sentences with phrase «often appropriate icons»

Californian bad boy Paul McCarthy's visceral, taboo - bashing, disturbing representations often appropriate icons of popular culture and childhood — Santa Claus, Barbie, Snow White and Heidi — and show these characters degenerating into violence and depravity.

Not exact matches

In his large - scaled canvases — which often develop beyond the bidimensional realm, through video and sculptural installations — we see diverse folks and spiritual entities in the battlefield, reinvidicating their histories when facing wars, tormentors and icons appropriated by the biopower structures of western society.