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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation (Paperback)
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation (Paperback)
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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.
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