"Consuming Images," the first of the four-part series at 9 tonight on Channel 13, takes off from the only too evident fact that the mass-produced images with which the nation is seduced or assaulted are designed to sell, not to inform.

In contrast to Andy Warhol's Factory led the American Pop Art movement of the period, Favro resisted the mass-produced image and object.

Walking through their shows, one can imagine both artists, scissors poised, scanning magazines, catalogues and any other source of mass-produced images and thinking about juxtapositions that would probe beneath reality's surface.

In an industry that thrives on clear-cut, mass-produced images, Marilyn Monroe still surprises us with her originality and her complexity.

This seductive "hyperreality," where shopping malls, amusement parks and mass-produced images from the news, television shows and films dominate, is drained of authenticity and meaning.

For consumers, the key development of the 1920s and '30s was the mass-produced image, which led to the culture of celebrity and unified standards of feminine beauty.

Thomas Kinkade, "painter of light," will sell you mass-produced "original" images of enticing old-fashioned villages with covered bridges and rose-festooned stone walls.

She transforms the mass-produced image of man into something unique, typical and essential.

Its retrievals don't so much parody or revitalize forms like the hand-tinted photograph or mass-produced images of saints as pay heartfelt homage to them or simply embalm them.

Savage completed the painting in 1801, and mass-produced the image as a mezzotint.