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Authors, works and languages of the image
Maxine Helfman
Historical Correction, Imim, 2012
"Historical Correction, Imim", 2012. © Maxine Helfman
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Introduction
As part of the celebrated eponymous series "Historical Correction", the image represents a direct and provocative intervention within the historical canon of Western art. Maxine Helfman appropriates the visual language, lighting grammar, and sartorial codes typical of 17th-century Flemish and Dutch portraiture (the so-called "Golden Age") to execute, as the title suggests, a "historical correction".
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