Frost Tip
Maker
Robert Heinecken
(American, 1931-2006)
DateMarch 1971
MediumNewsprint (Glamour Magazine page) with rubbing, black and white photograph
Dimensions10 3/16 x 8 1/16 in. (25.9 x 20.5 cm)
Credit LineMr. Arnold Gilbert
Collections
Object number1978.73
Status
Not on viewFor over four decades, the late Robert Heinecken was a trenchant observer of social and sexual politics. Although he rarely used the camera himself, he made innovative use of photography by combining found photojournalistic and advertising images into new works. In the 1960s, he put this strategy to provocative use with a series of reconfigured magazines laden with highly charged content, which he then sometimes put surreptitiously back into circulation. For example, in his series Periodical #5, made at the height of the Vietnam War, Heinecken took magazines such as Glamour and overprinted the images of fashion models with horrific images of young Vietnamese soldiers, much to the surprise of newsstand consumers who had purchased his disruptive juxtapositions of pop culture and politics. In Frost Tip, the images of a model in a magazine advertisement flirt and grin, obscuring the ghostly, collaged figure whose legs remain visible on top of the advertisement text beneath.
20th century (after mid- 2nd century C.E. original)
