Matthew Biro

Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"From the 1960s through the late 1990s, Robert Heinecken's controversial art continually challenged inherited ideas around consumerism, the facticity of reportage, and visual culture's relationship to gender and identity politics. Author Matthew Biro presents an exhaustive look at Heinecken's life and art in the first book-length study dedicated to the artist"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 176mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781517904647
• ISBN-10: 1517904641
• Artikelnr.: 63198314

Autorenporträt

Matthew 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). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Art, Photography, and the Consumption of Identity
1. Artist and Educator: Criticizing the American Family Ideal through 35mm
Photography
2. Documents of Manufactured Experience: Appropriation and the Photogram in
the 1960s
3. The Photographic Object: Heinecken’s Materialism
4. Magazine Work: American Disaster and Identity
5. Art, Pornography, Painting: Heinecken’s Relationship to Feminism
6. The Polaroid Experience: Instantaneous Photography and the Performance
of Identity
7. Surrealism on TV: Ronald Reagan and the Newscasters
8. Appropriation in the 1980s and 1990s: History and the Body at the End of
the Analog Era
Coda: Heinecken’s Significance
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index