Robert Heinecken
U.C.B. Pin-Up

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

CultureAmerican

Titles

U.C.B. Pin-Up

Date1968

PlaceLos Angeles, California, United States

MediumBlack and white film transparency on magazine collage

DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 6 in. (21.6 × 15.2 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Maya Ishiwata and Chris Pichler, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.1288

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description“I use poetry quite
often as an analogy to creative photography…. The structure of language and the
choices that poetry offers to a person wishing to express ideas verbally are
very similar, I think, to the visual possibilities and options that a
photographer has.” Robert Heinecken’s training and early experience were in
printmaking, and his later work usually contains sufficient handwork that makes
its photographic content difficult to recognize. He uses readymade photographs
such as the ones found in magazines and advertisements, and collages them in an
intricate manner, often three-dimensionally. Utterly disinterested in
photography’s inherited mission to convey reality or the preexisting notion of
photography as a fine art, Heinecken positioned photography as a voyeur in the
contemporary society saturated with images.
ProvenanceArtist.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from PaceMacGill Gallery 5/3/1986.
Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 21–May 9, 2010.

"Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 15–June 22, 2014; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, October 5, 2014–January 17, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on the overmat in pencil, beneath lower left of window: "U.C.B. Pin Up #2 of 2 [signature]"
Inscribed in pencil, recto fo mount, lower right: "U.C.B Pin Up / #2 of 2 / [signature] / 81:010:023"

Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount: "R.F. Heinecken / Dept of Art / UCLA / 405 Hilgard Ave / Los Angeles Calif / 90024 / 'U.C.B. Pin Up' / May 1969 / Film + Collage"

Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, lower left edge: "Remove this tape / Re Mat larger / Engant"

The collage is signed on the overmat in pencil, beneath the lower right of window: "Heinecken '68" and again on the mount in the lower right.
It is signed again on the recto of mount beneath the film transparency: "Heinecken / May '69" [NOTE DISCREPANCY IN DATE]

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