Steal This Image! Photography and Appropriation in Cubism and Contemporary Art
Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Henry Auditorium
FREE: Henry Members, Picasso Passport Holders, and Students
$10 General Admission
From European collagists in the early 1900s to contemporary installation artists who cull elements from the garbage bin and the Internet, the recycling of materials and ideas has been a fertile practice in modern and contemporary art. Cubist collage, montage, Pop Art, Assemblage, and Appropriation fractured pictorial conventions and led to the upheaval of aesthetic systems of order. Photography has played a catalytic role in this revolution. Join Henry Director Sylvia Wolf, Henry Associate Curator Sara Krajewski, and guest artists for a conversation about the impact of photography on this artistic practice– inspired by the SAM exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Henry exhibition Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture.
Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture