Artist Richard Prince is renowned for his appropriations of icons that capture the American cultural zeitgeist.
This book showcases how Prince has mined the mythological American West within the artwork he produced during the last four decades.
"Working with such media as painting, artist's books, assisted readymades and photography, Prince extracts images from a small selection of parallel worlds--the worlds of advertising, celebrity, biker gangs, and low comedy, among others"- ...
This limited edition artist's book, published on the occasion of the recent exhibition "Richard Prince: Tiffany Paintings," explores the paintings and related newsprint collages executed by the artist over the last seven years.
Tiré du site Internet d'Amazon.com: "Prince has pioneered appropriation since the mid-1970s, mining images from mass media, advertising, and entertainment to subvert and redefine concepts of authorship and ownership.The New Portraits ...
Ilse Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek’s more prominent merchants. She has lived most of her life surrounded by the trappings of wealth and privilege. Many would consider...
A year after Richard Prince's Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince's series of...
Recent essays by Richard Prince; reprints of historical texts by Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, and Kim Gordon; and a new essay by Rachel Kushner. Exhibition: Gagosian West 24th Street, New York, USA (01.11-19.12.2018).
There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors. Au contraire, the inventive shapes and...
A literary text by Jonathan Lethem, author of the currently much-talked-about novel Chronic City, rounds off this volume edited by Kristine McKenna."
Catalog of an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, February 21-April 6, 2013.
Richard Prince: Photographs
Richard Prince, the originator of re-photography and a leading proponent of postmodernism, is noted for his appropriations of mass cultural images as a means of questioning assumptions about representation and...
Richard Prince: Check Paintings
This book assembles together the photographs that initiated Prince's exploration of "authorship" and "the original," ideas that were prevalent in the critical discourse of the late 70s, and are perhaps even more so today.
Conceived by the artist, this book gathers unpublished images and well-known works using T-Shirts as a medium.
The works in this catalogue, which include such well-known groups as Jokes and Car Hoods, illustrate the extraordinary variety of techniques and media Richard Prince uses to grapple with American...
In American English, artist and book collector Richard Prince contrasts his collection of American first edition books with their British counterparts, photographing the pairings in individual staged environments. A must...
In this series, he uses appropriation in a new way, as he pays homage to great American abstract painters such as Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. This volume reproduces a selection from this series.
Richard Prince