Daytime Color TV Fantasy/Poly Stix

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

Date1976

Mediumcolor offset lithograph

Dimensionssheet: 34.4 × 45 cm (13 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineWilliam Grimm Fund

Terms

Object number1981.290

Label TextHeinecken rejected the camera in favor of working with found photographic material. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, he found inspiration in Hollywood’s flourishing television industry. In the 1970s he began to incorporate a working television into his process, using it as a light source to expose photographic paper. For Daytime Color TV Fantasy/Poly Stix, Heinecken layered still images from American television advertisements with pornographic depictions of fetishism. The “Poly Stix” brand name is splayed across woman’s breasts, overlaying American consumerism with sex and the female body—a commentary on the cultural contexts that shape perception.ProvenancePurchase from Light Gallery, New York

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