Are You Rea #5
Robert Heinecken
American, 1931–2006
1964-68
A lithographic photographic print in which Robert Heinecken rephotographs and recombines found magazine images to reveal how mass media manufactures and sexualizes desire.
The image seizes you with inverted, high‑contrast tones and a doubled, overlapping pair of kneeling women—one ghostly and partially obscured—bound hands and the fragmentary type “of Eve…” floating like a slogan, producing an uneasy mix of glamour and menace.
Made during Heinecken’s influential 1960s experiments with appropriation, the work helped undermine the notion of photographic objectivity and opened a path for postmodern critique of advertising, pornography, and authorship in visual culture.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 3/4 × 6 1/4" (22.2 × 15.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Winter Fund
Accession
193.1991.5
Palette
Exhibitions
