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Stephen Kroninger, 1990 - 1994

 File — Box: 3

Comments from Mark Dery

- The collage illustrator Stephen Kroninger, a fixture for years at The Village Voice, descends from sociopolitical satirists like the photomonteur John Heartfield as well as the Dadaists’ and the Situationists’ tactical use of appropriated, often desecrated mass-media imagery and therefore has much in common with culture jammers—which is why I asked him to illustrated the cover of my Open Magazine pamphlet on culture jamming. This file includes a rough transcript of an interview with Kroninger by my wife, Margot Mifflin, who was then a freelance journalist (and is now a professor of English and journalism at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism), together with a letter from Kroninger to Mifflin. It also includes articles on Kroninger, a MoMA announcement about a show of his work, postcards announcing gallery exhibitions including his art, an article on Kroninger’s video for Public Enemy, clippings from Voice, New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly featuring his illustrations. - File also includes clippings on and brochure for MoMa exhibit of John Heartfield’s photomontages; - a handwritten cover letter and clippings, promotional materials related to San Francisco-based sociopolitical satirist/collage artist “Winston Smith,” whose collages adorn many Bay Area punk-rock album covers, specifically LP’s by the Dead Kennedys. (Note: Box #1 contains a book about Smith’s work, Act Like Nothing’s Wrong: The Montage Art of Winston Smith. - three postcards by UK political collage artist Peter Kennard/Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990 - 1994

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 3.36 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
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