pop art:

This decadent stage in cultural history is comparable, to cite an example, to the "late Roman culture industry": the stereotyping of historical models in art, the consumption of ideals of beauty, the inflation of religious symbols, the mass accumulation of luxurious status symbols in the form of mechanically produced consumer articles, a sense of identity derived from an imperialist world power which held all the political and economic reins in its hand and whose attempt to improve the living standards of a consumer society turned progress and affluence into nothing short of an ideology.