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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew BiroPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm ISBN: 9781517904647ISBN 10: 1517904641 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 29 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsWith crystalline prose and impressively illustrated throughout, Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation brings long overdue attention to one of the most innovative photographers of the twentieth century. Matthew Biro's immaculate research and careful consideration of the different phases of Heinecken's practice offer a most welcome recalibration of his many achievements and their reverberations throughout American culture at large. --James Nisbet, author of Second Site Matthew Biro's book provides a thorough critical analysis of an artist who has been neglected for far too long. The inquiry, however, does far more than achieve this already important work of recuperation. By placing Heinecken within his context with such care, both by way of geography and time, Biro uses the artist to rewrite our understanding of American art from the 1920s through the 1990s. --Andres Mario Zervigon, author of Photography and Germany Author InformationMatthew Biro is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan and author of The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin (Minnesota, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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