Category: Mass Media

Brillo Boxes by Andy Warhol

These Brillo Boxes by American Pop artist Andy Warhol are not real Brillo boxes. They are cubic shapes that have the ‘look’ of commercial Brillo boxes silk-screened across…

Detail of Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass (detail) provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what…

Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” at the National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Leaves of Grass provides a densely collaged three-dimensional array of images from Life magazine 1935-1985. It is an examination of the effects photography has had on what we…

Trabant Meets Minions

Advertising an event, the Trabant car with multiple headlights becomes an ironic housing for the image of a Minion with a single headlight-like eye. The cheap car references…

Passive and Active Representation of Gender

These magazines show very different versions of masculine and feminine display. The man is featured central to the front page of Forbes, a business and financial advice magazine….