Sentences with phrase «with consumerist»

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.

Warhol used all the advanced technology available during his time: photography, video, film without disregarding painting, drawing and silk - screening to express his fascination with the consumerist society, and the cult of celebrity, which were his favorite themes.

This clarity will allow them to compete with the consumerist youth culture to which public schools, whatever their academic quality, offer no credible alternative.

Not exact matches

The «answer» was to financialize the U.S. economy with vast increases in credit, debt and leverage, enabling a hyper - consumerist economy built on a pyramid of debt and leverage.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

Because, according to Don Paolo, Christmas is now «a fairy tale from the nativity scene with lullabies and bagpipes, the exclusive support of a capitalist and consumerist economy, transforming the whole of Christianity into civil religion.»

Jeremiah 29:11, the rallying cry of prosperity preachers everywhere, often holds much of the consumerist and impatient attitude we take into our relationship with God.

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.

The market economy comes with a price, and the Pope is deeply concerned about unemployment, social dislocation, and the «whole ultra-liberal, consumerist system which is devoid of values, and introducing it with the power of propaganda.»

Greider confronts the ways in which our democratic, entrepreneurial and altruistic impulses conflict with our self - interested, consumerist and competitive urges.

Of course she could not have realized at that time fifty years ago that some specialized medical technologies could be so fully integrated with the materialistic - mechanical reductionist view of human being and with the profit - consumerist motives that it would be impossible to convert them to the holistic view of human personhood or to be made an appropriate tool for promoting health of poor communities.

This «normal» me is a conglomerate of consumerist fantasies mingled with the kind of «real» experience that so impresses many of the book's contributors, and it is beyond my capacities to separate one from the other.

The lighting in the produce section has been carefully chosen and placed to make everything look as enticing as possible, both to convince you that, yes, this is the week to finally try making something with chayote, and to get your brain thinking that maybe, just maybe, it is feeling a tad peckish, as you begin your stroll toward the consumerist version of Oz.

However, there is no need to use namecalling with terms like «consumerist zombies» and if you're going to say something provocative, please at least have the guts to leave your real contact information and not post anonymously... Yasmin - =D amanda - I agree that Nutella makes most food better.

I could do with less of the consumerist Valentine's Day and would be happy with more of the sentimental side of the holiday.

Beautifully done... I wish that they'd featured your voice even more... you temper the host's potentially consumerist - sounding (and I hate that term «mommy blogger») comments about blogging with some important notes about spirit and passion.

Still, the conferees warned that was no reason for some shrill irredentist baying, in some quarters; adding that with proper restructuring, Nigeria's consumerist pseudo-federal system may well be tweaked into a productive and prosperous one.

The result is a negative downward spiral, say the researchers, whereby those with low well - being turn to consumerist values, which impacts further still upon their state of mind.

Combine trips to your favorite boutiques and department stores with the double - edged - sword - convenience of online shopping and you've got a recipe for consumerist burnout.

The normal store - bought chocolate bars will be loaded with added sugar to give them a consumerist's taste.

Armed with a train - hopping manual but mostly reduced to hitchhiking the Trans - Canada Highway, Bucktooth Cloud and Skeleton Hat encounter all manner of small - town weirdos and observe a countryside awash in fast food and consumerist kitsch.

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

Yet even though Merchant - Ivory - Jhabvala cinema is still consumerist, Le Divorce gives a few glimpses into contemporary French cinema through the casting alone: Melvil Poupaud, who plays Charles - Henri, is a Raul Ruiz discovery and regular, and Nathalie Richard, who plays one of Charles - Henri's relatives and was also in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, has worked with Jacques Rivette and Olivier Assayas.

The Consumerist is reporting the Department of Education has terminated its cooperation with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in dealing with student loan servicer problems.

A reader of The Consumerist sent them a little story about his dealings with Sam's Club.

The «Third Wave (or Millennial) Feminism» panel began with Miranda July scholar Cara Smulevitz's tracing the hipster filmmaker / artist's arc out of the»90s punk zine scene and Riot Grrrl's consumerist transmutation into a Girl Power marketing machine.

Polke's main achievement was to be an early and astute adopter of American Pop Art, belying its crisp, consumerist optimism with tawdry materials that added social bite, and with random splashes of paint that implied disorder and the unconscious.

But his main achievement was to be an early and astute adopter of American Pop Art, belying its crisp, consumerist optimism with tawdry materials that added social bite, and with random splashes of paint that implied disorder and the unconscious.

Nurse of Greenmeadow, combining the harsh gestural surface, the brutal treatment of the paint and the subject, with what was formerly an idealized image designed specifically for its sexiness, here approaches these constructs from a new perspective that again exposes the strange mechanics of image presentation and interpretation in our consumerist, media - drenched society.

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.

Teruya's bags are emblazoned with the names of hugely popular global brands such as McDonalds and Louis Vuitton, while Carey's piece is made out of daily newspapers and, as such, the works of both artists may be seen to embody our throwaway consumerist attitude.

Drawing inspiration from the radically confrontational Viennese Actionists and the Happenings of Allan Kaprow and others, McCarthy quickly strayed away from his initial interest in painting and in the 1970s began composing performances with the goal of physically disrupting the sense of material comfort, general apathy, and violent cultural dissolution that he viewed as the results of the United States» consumerist, entertainment - driven mass media and popular culture.

It concludes with an installation of recent works that considers the values and consumerist ideologies relating to contemporary American life.

However, instead of creating slickly - made celebrations of contemporary culture or painting commodities that Americans desired, as Warhol and James Rosenquist habitually did, Polke subverted the colourful, consumerist optimism with tawdry materials, deliberately off - key printing and random splashes of paint that implied a world that was not rising ever - upwards, but slowly fracturing apart.

His recent retrospective confronted viewers with the true (but not quite hidden) cost of fulfilling our consumerist desires»

Very much up - to - date with the latest happening within consumerist culture and the news of the world, she issues commentary that sometimes gets adopted as the mantra of the very group it targets, in this case the compulsive shoppers.

By dressing these foam lengths in shop - bought accoutrements and clothing, he attributed each with certain humanoid characters, built around three pre-determined sub-sets of contemporary consumerist America: teenagers (or «tweens», the more specific category for those aged in - between 10 and 12), middle American fans of the rock - rap star Kid Rock and Wall Street traders.

Polke, meanwhile, offers a whole narrative of Germany of his own, from works from the 1960s, with titles like Sekt für Alle («fizz for all») sending up consumerist West Germany, to the great series of watchtower paintings of the 1980s, which complicatedly recall the fortifications of Nazi prison camps.

Genesis Belanger (b. 1978, USA) creates delicate ceramic sculptures exploring with humour and wit the consumerist nature of contemporary society.

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

German artist Hans - Peter Feldmann collects in order to appropriate and challenge aesthetic sensibility, Richard Hamilton's use of pre-existing photographic imagery is linked with pop's consumerist strategies, and Dieter Roth, German - Swiss conceptual artist and long time collaborator with Hamilton, alighted most particularly (nay obsessively) on the postcard format, exemplified in Postkarte.

The work of the artist, since the beginning of his career, has been dominated by themes such as violence, the relationship with media, drugs, mental illnesses, pop culture, consumerist compulsion, sex, pollution.

Austin - based artist collaborative Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.

Okay Mountain repackages, reconstitutes, and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.

repackages, reconstitutes and rekindles our consumerist desires with a sardonic edge.

Deeply influenced by the discourse and practices engaged with environmental issues, Brooks challenges scientific, philosophical, and consumerist dualities that traditionally separate humans and nonhumans.

Gerhard Richter combined camera art and painting in his «photo - paintings» of the 1970s, while Jeff Koons combined consumerist imagery (balloon shapes) with highly finished sculptural techniques to create his Balloon Dog pop - sculptures (1994 - 2000).

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.

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.

Wermers earned a Turner Prize nomination this year for her exhibition at London's Herald St, in which a series of sleek Bauhaus chairs backed with regal fur coats invoked the consumerist trappings of wealth and status.