Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History
• Includes works made in response to global current events, and grounded in art history
• Charcoal drawings reflecting on symbols of power and authority
Robert Longo is widely known for his highly detailed and hyper-realistic charcoal drawings that explore the construction of power symbols. He explores the implications of living in an image-saturated culture-how we filter, process and preserve the images we are confronted with on a daily basis. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History at the Milwaukee Art Museum and focuses on Longo's works of the last ten years, including images of war, protest movements, immigration and climate change created in direct response to contemporary global events and drawn fromimages widely circulated through various media sources.
ROBERT LONGO (b. 1953) is an artist, filmmaker and musician living in New York. He is considered a key figure of the US "Pictures Generation," which used appropriation and montage in the 1980s to unmask stereotypes in visual culture and to criticize the mediatization of war and the excessive glorification of history. With his labor-intensive, large-format charcoal drawings, Longo aims to slow down the consumption of the images that inundate us daily through our screens, or what the artist calls the "storm of images."
Robert Longo (*1953) is an artist, filmmaker and musician living in New York. He is considered a key figure of the US “Pictures Generation,” which used appropriation and montage in the 1980s to unmask stereotypes in visual culture and to criticize the mediatization of war and the excessive glorification of history. With his labor-intensive, large-format charcoal drawings, Longo aims to slow down the consumption of the images that inundate us daily through our screens, or what the artist calls the “storm of images.”
»[...] a testament to the power of images to hold a mirror to ourselves.«
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.09.2025 |
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| Mitarbeit |
Designer: Rutger Fuchs |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 266 x 318 mm |
| Gewicht | 1482 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Schlagworte | Amerika • Appropriation • ART • charcoal • charcoal drawings • climate change • consumption of images • Fotorealismus • Geschichte • hyper-realistic • image-saturated culture • Immigration • Kohle • Kunst • large-format drawings • mediatization of war • Milwaukee Art Museum • Montage • photorealism • Politik • power symbols • protest movements • Robert Longo • Visual Culture • war images |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7757-5803-8 / 3775758038 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7757-5803-1 / 9783775758031 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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