It is unlikely that the Los Angeles Kings hockey club modelled its monument after Géricault's raft, though both works speak to the persistence of endurance as a global cultural trait (the Kings had more than a few losing seasons in the 1970s).
A more recent example of modelling might be found in the makers of the Dosseh-Putain video that has its cast dressed in outfits reminiscent of those found in Nadir Attia's Ghost (2007).
It is a shame that Attia has taken action against the maker of this video and the French rappers who commissioned it, as I doubt the video is going to change anyone's mind about the power -- and indeed the ambiguity -- of Attia's work.
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