Periodical Pain
Robert Heinecken
1969
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The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice ...
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Periodical Pain
Robert Heinecken
1969
Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [70 pages]
27 × 20.8 cm
Edition of 19, each unique; signed and numbered 13/19

The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. He often returned his altered magazines to newsstands, where they functioned as acts of infiltration, disrupting the conventions through which mass media produced and circulated meaning.


 


Unlike his other Periodicals (Time, Glamour, Mademoiselle), this volume brings together a carefully curated selection of articles drawn from various winter 1969 magazine issues. The compilation spans an eclectic mix of titles, including Evergreen Review, Glamour, Golf Digest, Good Housekeeping, Guns & Ammo, Madames, Mademoiselle, Modern Male, Popular Photography, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, True Confessions, True Detective, True Experiences, and Woman’s Day. From “The Little Girl That Santa Forgot” and “Food and Trimmings to Make Parties Fun for the Hostess Too” to “How to Measure Your Sexual Quotient” and “Why Must Gun Laws Protect Criminals”, the selected pages expose violence, expectations, and dysfunctions within American society. Through skillful editing and juxtaposition, the artist brings disparate fragments of popular culture into dialogue, transforming them into a charged critique of the mechanisms of mass-media manipulation.


 


Heinecken produced only 19 copies of “Periodical Pain”, each handmade and unique.

Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [70 pages]
27 × 20.8 cm
Edition of 19, each unique; signed and numbered 13/19

The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. He often returned his altered magazines to newsstands, where they functioned as acts of infiltration, disrupting the conventions through which mass media produced and circulated meaning.

 

Unlike his other Periodicals (Time, Glamour, Mademoiselle), this volume brings together a carefully curated selection of articles drawn from various winter 1969 magazine issues. The compilation spans an eclectic mix of titles, including Evergreen Review, Glamour, Golf Digest, Good Housekeeping, Guns & Ammo, Madames, Mademoiselle, Modern Male, Popular Photography, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, True Confessions, True Detective, True Experiences, and Woman’s Day. From “The Little Girl That Santa Forgot” and “Food and Trimmings to Make Parties Fun for the Hostess Too” to “How to Measure Your Sexual Quotient” and “Why Must Gun Laws Protect Criminals”, the selected pages expose violence, expectations, and dysfunctions within American society. Through skillful editing and juxtaposition, the artist brings disparate fragments of popular culture into dialogue, transforming them into a charged critique of the mechanisms of mass-media manipulation.

 

Heinecken produced only 19 copies of “Periodical Pain”, each handmade and unique.

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The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. He often returned his altered magazines to newsstands, where they functioned as acts of infiltration, disrupting the conventions through which mass media produced and circulated meaning.

 

Unlike his other Periodicals (Time, Glamour, Mademoiselle), this volume brings together a carefully curated selection of articles drawn from various winter 1969 magazine issues. The compilation spans an eclectic mix of titles, including Evergreen Review, Glamour, Golf Digest, Good Housekeeping, Guns & Ammo, Madames, Mademoiselle, Modern Male, Popular Photography, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, True Confessions, True Detective, True Experiences, and Woman’s Day. From “The Little Girl That Santa Forgot” and “Food and Trimmings to Make Parties Fun for the Hostess Too” to “How to Measure Your Sexual Quotient” and “Why Must Gun Laws Protect Criminals”, the selected pages expose violence, expectations, and dysfunctions within American society. Through skillful editing and juxtaposition, the artist brings disparate fragments of popular culture into dialogue, transforming them into a charged critique of the mechanisms of mass-media manipulation.

 

Heinecken produced only 19 copies of “Periodical Pain”, each handmade and unique.

Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [70 pages]
27 × 20.8 cm
Edition of 19, each unique; signed and numbered 13/19

The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. He often returned his altered magazines to newsstands, where they functioned as acts of infiltration, disrupting the conventions through which mass media produced and circulated meaning.

 

Unlike his other Periodicals (Time, Glamour, Mademoiselle), this volume brings together a carefully curated selection of articles drawn from various winter 1969 magazine issues. The compilation spans an eclectic mix of titles, including Evergreen Review, Glamour, Golf Digest, Good Housekeeping, Guns & Ammo, Madames, Mademoiselle, Modern Male, Popular Photography, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, True Confessions, True Detective, True Experiences, and Woman’s Day. From “The Little Girl That Santa Forgot” and “Food and Trimmings to Make Parties Fun for the Hostess Too” to “How to Measure Your Sexual Quotient” and “Why Must Gun Laws Protect Criminals”, the selected pages expose violence, expectations, and dysfunctions within American society. Through skillful editing and juxtaposition, the artist brings disparate fragments of popular culture into dialogue, transforming them into a charged critique of the mechanisms of mass-media manipulation.

 

Heinecken produced only 19 copies of “Periodical Pain”, each handmade and unique.

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The performative nature of Robert Heinecken’s artist’s books is fundamentally transgressive. Beginning in 1969, Heinecken dismantled and reconfigured magazines, developing a major body of work that interrogated the mechanisms of appropriation. Politically charged, his practice conceived of the artist’s book not as a static object but as a performative field. He often returned his altered magazines to newsstands, where they functioned as acts of infiltration, disrupting the conventions through which mass media produced and circulated meaning.

 

Unlike his other Periodicals (Time, Glamour, Mademoiselle), this volume brings together a carefully curated selection of articles drawn from various winter 1969 magazine issues. The compilation spans an eclectic mix of titles, including Evergreen Review, Glamour, Golf Digest, Good Housekeeping, Guns & Ammo, Madames, Mademoiselle, Modern Male, Popular Photography, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, True Confessions, True Detective, True Experiences, and Woman’s Day. From “The Little Girl That Santa Forgot” and “Food and Trimmings to Make Parties Fun for the Hostess Too” to “How to Measure Your Sexual Quotient” and “Why Must Gun Laws Protect Criminals”, the selected pages expose violence, expectations, and dysfunctions within American society. Through skillful editing and juxtaposition, the artist brings disparate fragments of popular culture into dialogue, transforming them into a charged critique of the mechanisms of mass-media manipulation.

 

Heinecken produced only 19 copies of “Periodical Pain”, each handmade and unique.

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