McCarthy similarly employs clown and grotesque figurative imagery to provoke and disturb viewers, using scatological and crude subject matter as a vehicle for conceptual critique of American culture and consumerism.

Kelley shared Nauman's postmodern American sensibility of using lowbrow and transgressive imagery to challenge cultural norms, creating bold conceptual works that deliberately provoke discomfort through figurative and crude subject matter.

Pettibon creates provocative figurative works on paper with bold conceptual underpinnings, using crude and transgressive imagery to subvert expectations in a distinctly American postmodern tradition similar to this lithograph.