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$18.00 Giant Power Heidelberg Electric Belt
Painting
A turn of the century catalog page with picture of belt, man wearing belt and elaborate text
868
Ink on canvas
AR0868
Anglim/Trimble
Purchase
Wally Hedrick
1973
Object
69-7/8 in
54 in
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Curator
Hedrick’s $18.00 Giant Power Heidelberg Electric Belt (1973) is an example of the artist’s appropriated paintings, not unlike Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. Hedrick photographed the image from a catalog advertisement and projected it onto canvas to reproduce it. Of the work, Hedrick has noted that it illustrates “this absolute belief in technology,” perhaps a wry foreshadowing of today’s obsession with wearable tech.