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During the revitalization of avant-garde practices in 1970s Poland, a strain of artmaking emerged that applied Pop aesthetics to the unlikely subject matter of consumer identity in a Communist state, responding to a new initiative by the government that encouraged the private consumption of luxury goods in the service of a more modern socialism. The films that arose from this moment engage wit h absurd, colorful and even scandalous content. Informed by Marxist analyses of the Western culture industry, they examine the effec ts of a ...[Llegir més]