This massive cultural transformation, called by some the rise of the postmodern era, has
transformed everything: travel and tourism, reading, the «high arts,» popular arts, health care,
gender roles, the places where «wisdom» is deposited and sought, the
relation of religion to the state, family continuity, sexuality, patterns of physical activity.
Marquez's Mop series
transforms materials, such as cleaning supplies, associated with working - class professions and generic tasks into highbrow art objects, implying the duality of process, class
relations, and
gender.