Untitled [Are You Rea]

Artist/Culture Robert Heinecken (American, 1931–2006)

Date1964–1968

Mediumoffset lithograph on white wove paper

Dimensionssheet: 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineNational Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Plan

Terms

Object number1975.12

Label TextHeinecken’s series Are You Rea engages with issues of consumerism and the objectification of women in an open-ended way. The truncated text in Heinecken’s photo-print Are You Rea solicits questions like “Are you real?” and “Are you ready?” A self-described paraphotographer, his practice merged printmaking, collage, and photography. Created without using a camera, the photographs in this series were produced by layering pages from magazines directly onto light-sensitive paper. Through this process he found an inventive way to unite image and text. An homage to the camera-less photographs of Surrealist Man Ray (1890-1976), Heinecken pronounced Are You Rea as “Are You Ray.” The artist later reproduced the black-and-white photographs as offset lithographs that include the three prints on display.ProvenanceLight Gallery, New York, NY

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