Object
Vision
Vision
Cottingham used his depictions of shopfronts to document America’s rapidly changing street scene. Photographs
helped him to isolate his subject and create unexpected compositions. Nonetheless, his sleek images with harsh
contrasts between light and dark appear unrealistic, partly due to the exaggerated size of the neon lettering.
Cottingham once said that he doesn’t ‘care about being realistic’. His graphic imagery betrays his previous life
as an art director in the advertising world. [text 2024]
helped him to isolate his subject and create unexpected compositions. Nonetheless, his sleek images with harsh
contrasts between light and dark appear unrealistic, partly due to the exaggerated size of the neon lettering.
Cottingham once said that he doesn’t ‘care about being realistic’. His graphic imagery betrays his previous life
as an art director in the advertising world. [text 2024]
- Maker
- Robert Cottingham
- Title
- Vision
- Dating
- 1973
- Object type
- schilderij
- Object number
- 28875
- Collection
- schilderkunst, beeldende kunst 1850 - heden
- Materials
- doek
- Technique
- olieverf op doek (airbrush)
- Dimensions
- hoogte 198 cm
- breedte 198 cm
- hoogte (met lijst) 200 cm
- breedte (met lijst) 200 cm
- Acquisition
- aankoop door Hedendaagse Kunst-Utrecht (overdracht van HK-U aan CM d.d. 30-11-1989) (1975)
- Associated subjects
- (herkomst)
- Inscriptions and marks
- signatuur en opschrift achterzijde, op doek (met verf): VISION // 1973 // COTTINGHAM
- Rights
- Collectie Centraal Museum Utrecht / foto Adriaan van Dam © Robert Cottingham, courtesy of Louis K. Meisel Gallery
- Documentation
- Op scherp: Fotorealisme nader bekeken / In Focus: A closer look at photorealism, Hanneke Grootenboer, Esmee Postma, met een bijdrage van Linda Nochlin, WBOOKS (Zwolle, 2024) Centraal Museum (Utrecht, 2024), 128 p.
- Amerikaans fotorealisme = Amerikanischer Fotorealisme = American Photorealism : de verzameling = die Sammlung = the collection: Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Utrecht, [tekst Wouter Kotte], Museum Hedendaagse Kunst (Utrecht, 1988) Stadtmuseum, Ratingen (Ratigen), 104 p.
- This is America : visies op de Amerikaanse droom, red. Meta Knol, Pauline Terreehorst, Meulenhoff (Amsterdam, 2006), 206 p.
