Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. He performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage. Linzy's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, A

Charming, Conceptual, Feminine, Playful, Political, Pop, Whimsical, Witty

When Jacob A. Riis, a police reporter in New York, began his personal campaign to expose the misery of the underprivileged living in the crime-infested slums of the lower East side, he soon found that the printed word was not sufficiently convincing, and so he turned to photography by flashlight.

19th century photography, Dark, Depressive, Documentary photography, Egalitarian, Grotesque, In-your-face, Monochromatic, Political, Social realism, Social revolution, Urban

Sigmar Polke was born in 1941 in Silesia, then part of East Germany and now present-day Poland. At the age of twelve his family left the Socialist East and moved to Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, where he grew up in the increasingly affluent society of former West Germany. He studied art at the Staat

Complex, Layered, Political, Sardonic

Beautiful , Dramatic, Epic, Euphoric, Expansive, Political, Social revolution, Sublime