The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents iCON: Consuming the American Image. Open March 19–June 12.

What is an icon today? Icons are recognized as representations of figures, cultures, and ideas regarded with reverence and honored with worship. In contemporary American society, these images construct our collective and individual identities through the portrayal of national imagery, celebrity, and advertising.

This exhibition, curated by the undergraduate members of the History of Art Majors’ Society, will feature works in diverse media by modern and contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and explore how the status of an icon is suspended between an object of cultural consumption and a subject of social destabilization.

This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts and a generous gift from Betsey and Alan Harris.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is located on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York. It houses Cornell’s art collection, which was begun in the 1880s by Cornell’s first president, Andrew Dickson White.

Image: Movie projected onto the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. (Image: University Photography)

Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art
Cornell University
Central & University Aves.
Ithaca, NY
14853-4001
607-255-6464
museum@cornell.edu
www.museum.cornell.edu

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