The Believable Lie: Heinecken, Polke, and Feldmann : Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

This exhibition focuses on relationships among the photographic work of three artists active during the 1970s that drew on ideas of surrealist/Dada culture of the 1920s and 1930s and influenced succeeding generations of photographers and media artists. The artists hail from different backgrounds: two Germans and one Los Angeles native who all matured in the decades following World War II. This is the first exhibition to bring photographic work by these artists together. Each embraced photography as one element of an artistic practice guided as much by literature, philosophy, and an attention to popular culture as by classical formal concerns of the medium. Yet, photographic process and context remained important to them.