Drawing up Jean Baudrillard work. “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign”. Telos Press Ltd. 1980.
His work shows how societies identify themselves by codes project explores notions of what is fake and what is authentic in a contemporary culture loaded with codes and symbols of faith, ideology, wealth, subjugation and the quest for power.
The tendency for all cultures to invent larger-than-life superheroes, and his work marries two forms visual representation, the similarities and cultural continuities between the ancient use of the painted image and the modern use of imagery in advertising and media.
In his master piece "Om Kalthoum" he paints it in such a way like pharaonic rows to evoke the feeling of an everlasting international legend in the musical world.
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