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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation (Hardcover)
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation (Hardcover)
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The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and
his critical views on the culture of mass media This is the first
book-length study dedicated to the artist Robert Heinecken, whose
innovative photographic practices sought to interrogate how mass
media imagery facilitated the construction of individual and
collective identities. Appropriating, rephotographing, and layering
pictures culled from newspapers, advertisements, pornography, and
television, Heinecken recombined and transformed the ubiquitous
images of mass culture to encourage viewers to critically reflect
on their sense of self. From the 1960s through the late
1990s, Heinecken’s controversial art continually challenged
inherited ideas around consumerism, the facticity of reportage, and
visual culture’s relationship to gender and identity politics.
Embodying the evolution of contemporary art toward increasingly
hybrid and conceptual approaches, his oeuvre includes examples of
painting, sculpture, photomontage, performance, installation,
time-based media, and artist’s books, all of which collectively
exploit photography’s reproducibility to subvert society’s
dominant ideologies and stereotypical modes of representation.
Author Matthew Biro presents an exhaustive look at Heinecken’s
life and art, locating him within a lineage that encompasses the
activities of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes and the
postmodern strategies of the Pictures Generation artists. Assessing
his career within the specific political and historical contexts
from which he gleaned his material, and illustrated throughout with
vibrant full-color reproductions of his art, this in-depth
examination demonstrates Robert Heinecken’s significance as a key
figure of twentieth-century art and an incisive commentator on
modern life in America.Â
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