The five major artists featured in State of the Art 4 question our understandings of ideas of female and male, of fantasy and desire and power. Artists include Cindy Sherman, Alexis Hunter, Eric Fischl, Mary Kelly, and Barbara Kruger.
Art21: Art in the 21st Century is an award-winning series of 24 programmes in which 100 contemporary artists explain their creations, their creative processes, and their perceptions of art. The Art21 series covers a wide range of contemporary artists and contemporary visual art.
When our culture is so tied to what we buy and how consumption comes to create our sense of self; when everything is seemingly permitted from sex to art, how does art itself respond? Consumption explores artists’ response to the pervasiveness of consumerism through the work of Barbara Kruger, Michael Ray Charles, Matthew Barney, Andrea Zittel, and Mel Chin.