{"product_id":"67473-robert-longo-the-acceleration-of-history","title":"Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History","description":"Robert Longo is widely known for his highly detailed and hyperrealistic charcoal drawings, which reflect the construction of symbols of power. He explores the effects of living in an image-saturated culture – how we filter, process, and retain the images we are confronted with daily. This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History at the Milwaukee Art Museum and focuses on Longo's work from the last ten years, which was created as an immediate response to current global events, and which is here placed, among other things, in the context of historical painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Longo (b. 1953) is a New York-based artist, filmmaker, and musician. He is considered a central representative of the American \"Pictures Generation,\" which in the 1980s exposed stereotypes of visual culture through appropriation and montage and criticized the mediation of wars and an exaggerated cult of history. With his labor-intensive, large-format charcoal drawings, Longo attempts to slow down the consumption of images that stream towards us daily on screens and which the artist describes as an \"iconoclasm.\"","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Book (978-3-7757-5803-1)","offer_id":45643334091016,"sku":"9783775758031","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775758031.jpg?v=1754468328","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/67473-robert-longo-the-acceleration-of-history","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}