Sentences with phrase «through consumerism»

While there have been some valid feminist critiques about Dove's emphasis on beauty and empowerment through consumerism, Dove and Unilever's other Sustainable Living Brands have, by and large, lived up to the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Brown is concerned with the stylistic appropriation of African - American cultural forms and with the global construction of identity through consumerism.

Standing as a monument to the British pastime of shopping, Barford's ceramic Tower likens efforts to find fulfilment through consumerism with the biblical Tower of Babel's attempt to reach heaven.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism — and they did so at the mall.

And if theirs was a very specific exercise, it's a fascinating one, offering a case study for anybody interested in community empowerment through consumerism.

Not exact matches

Capitalism gives rise to a secular version of Protestantism that operates through the culture of mass consumerism and the ideology of privatized self - fulfillment.

The widespread promotion of the products of western capitalism, coupled with increased availability of goods and the sustained cultivation of desire through commercial media, has led to a profound influence of the philosophy of consumerism in western societies and increasingly in developing countries as well.

It is instructive to note how significant an influence consumerism has had as a philosophy, even as a hermeneutical lens through which Christian faith is understood and interpreted.

My First tendency was rather naturally to answer in the negative to this question because as far as I know Ralph Nader has no personal faith that is witnessed to publicly through his frequent pronouncements about «consumerism.»

Evangelicals have also begun to learn that the real secularizing force in our society is capitalism gone extreme — into simple service of Mammon, mediated through advertising that has to be called postpost - Judeo - Christian in its symbols, pagan in its intentions, and subversive of Christian morality while supportive of simple consumerism and commodification.

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].

Perhaps that's why rather than reaching zombification through magic or rampant consumerism, the undead in this film series have been infected by a man - made virus called «rage.»

So while scrolling through Fashion Week photos online, it's healthy to remember that what's significant about fashion blogging isn't just the opportunity it provides to show off Valentino pumps or rave about Phoebe Philo, but also its role as a bellwether for the changing nature of consumerism and self - expression in the digital era.

This may be Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshuai's best film ever, digging through the layers of the visible — the mundane reality of China walking toward increased consumerism and material comfort — to reveal a long - hidden sorrow, the unsolved guilt of ordinary people who had to make do just to survive.

«Fashion victim» is one of those dismissive metaphors lightly thrown around in reference to those overly susceptible to the industry's defining allure of vanity and consumerism, but in Fashionista Rumley renders it achingly tragic through the figure of April.

You must battle through the smoke and fire of consumerism to not spend the money.

The dollar is powerful if you give people more power to do something with that purchase through conscious consumerism.»

Also called the National Day of Giving, #GivingTuesday is a reaction to the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday and aimed to create a space for people to dedicate an entire day to giving back through charitable donations and acts.

This was the myth of consumerism's reciprocity, that through buying consumer products I can realize my existential desires, fulfill the fantasy of rebellion, and perhaps deal with the feeling of lostness and adriftness that Alexander notes was pervasive among her generation.

Through light - hearted humour and sarcasm Lavier has reworked the notion of the canvas and moreover of the art work in general via juxtapositions and hybridizations, creations that are generated by his thoughts on consumerism and authorship, which are rooted in his first handed experience of the tumultuous riots in Paris in 1968.

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.

Through reorganizing this material and the experiences of her daily life in visually surprising ways, Perry addresses a range of issues relating to consumerism and the business of living.

The three «still life» assemblages of chrome objects included in the THE SPECULATIVE GAZE embody a similar duality of material lust and a sort of moral hesitance; as dimensional «vanitas» images they contain a network of objects and their attendant associations, raising a critique of contemporary consumerism and economic insatiability through this material dialogue.

The living conditions fabricated by materialism and consumerism are depicted through Conteh's paintings that render slices of life and portraits that define this moment in time by people's dress, tattoos and hairstyles.

However, in other ways, the works may also be viewed as subverting that same attitude: through their creative approach to recycling these materials, and repurposing them as art objects, both artists successfully assert their own artistic identities through the raw materials of consumerism.

Without irony, but with a deadpan «directness that suggested innocence», he depicted the bomber as though flying through the flak of a consumer society, questioning the «collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.»

Through performances, films, texts, and most importantly sculpture incorporating found materials and household objects, he sought to subvert the separation between art and lived experience, and to interrogate mass consumerism and the rise of technology.

Through bursts of colour and a myriad of characters, the work touched on a range of themes, often channelling the ecstasy and anxiety of consumerism.

Issues of identity, gender, class, race, globalization, and consumerism is crucial to the exhibition and is addressed through the many creative, theoretical, and sociopolitical investigations of the artists.

Each floor of this chronologically organized exhibition is a tour through some of our obsessions of the decades: consumerism, censorship, celebrity worship — all materialized in bold, iconic and unforgettable works.»

STUFF is an exhibition that aims to address issues of consumerism and accumulation of material possessions, through the lens of contemporary art.

In Al - Maria's view, the mall in both the Gulf and the United States — along with its attendant consumerism — occupies «a weirdly neutral shared zone between cultures that are otherwise engaged in a sort of war of information and image,» waged through both traditional and social media.

Winner of the 2015 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, Drouet presents a colorful reimagining of plastic as the currency of consumerism in her solo exhibition Plastique, on view at Swan Coach House through May 27.

The event will include a series of intensive workshops, discussions and performances that will explore how youth culture glamorizes consumerism in an attempt to examine capitalism through the lenses of art, history and culture.

The film covers the post World War II period, characterized by prosperity and innocent consumerism, as well as institutionalized fear, through the beginning of the 1960s featuring Sputnik, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon.

Through site - specific performance, street - based intervention and film, the vacuum cleaner empowers his audience to address socio - political issues including consumerism and mental health discrimination.

On view through April 7, After Industry will immerse audiences in an aesthetically rich experience, while also providing a platform to engage with important underlying themes, including consumerism, human impact on the environment, and the effects of mass production.

Artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson is acclaimed for the pioneering use of new technologies through which she deals with issues such as identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

Through monumental scope, Flood constructs an archive through which we can decipher the artifacts of consuThrough monumental scope, Flood constructs an archive through which we can decipher the artifacts of consuthrough which we can decipher the artifacts of consumerism.

Through surreal pop - vocal performances, Vogds toys with contemporary notions of camp, trend, and queer 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.»

Tompkins makes her material sing anew — formally and thematically; a transubstantiation of medium and meaning occurs that, in its fearless collision with normative culture through crops and alteration, becomes a feminist act, an exemplar of female agency in a sea of high capitalist consumerism that would otherwise deny it.

Other artists during this period addressed social and political issues through their work, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat commenting on consumerism and religion through comic imagery in A Panel of Experts (1982).

Rosenquist took as his subject the F - 111 fighter bomber plane, the newest, most technologically advanced weapon in development at the time, and positioned it, as he later explained, «flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.»

This concluding exhibition is the last of a series of interconnected shows spanning 2016, which has seen the Gallery take a nostalgic journey through some of its curatorial highlights from the past 50 years, presenting works from across this span of time and recontextualising them with contemporary works of art and the present day; highlighting everything from globalisation, temporality, consumerism, consciousness, the body, and cultural identity.

It explores the causation, occurrences, inner mechanisms, politics and functions of Anxiety in relation to the development of consumerism in cities like Hong Kong, through the practice of the four participating artists.

Pasta Oner makes observations on the conservative mindset of the region he is from, making a spot - on comment on the bad habits of consumerism through his post-pop works.

Through a wide variety of media ranging from installation to performance and ceramics, Pia Camil explores themes of art history, consumerism and the Mexican urban landscape.

Weary of the criticism that was plaguing his signature car part works that situated them as a commentary on American car culture, consumerism and taste, Chamberlain sought out other materials through which he could create sculptures so as to avoid then so called «car crash syndrome.»

The four nominated artists — Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Elizabeth Price and Paul Noble — explore themes of consumerism, social and cultural spaces and performance through technical drawings, film installations, and mixed media of imagery, texts and music.