Julia Wachtel

by Quinn Latimer, Reto Thuring, Reto Thüring

Rising to prominence in the early 1980s, Julia Wachtel's (b. 1956) artistic practice focuses on the visual language of mass culture. Like her Pictures Generation counterparts, Wachtel's work in the early 1980s appropriated popular imagery to critique an increasingly media-saturated society. Wachtel has continued to replicate, manipulate, and juxtapose images in ways that can be unsettling to the viewer. More recently, her use of newspaper and magazine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300209967
• ISBN13: 9780300209969
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.8" x 12.2"