- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd (May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714841641
- ISBN-13: 978-0714841649
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 25.2 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 786,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists who worked with the margins of American subcultures and visual debris. Highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, cartoons, cowboys ("borrowed" from the Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are central to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was working for the cutting services of "Time Life" publications in New York, and had access to thousands of cut-up magazines of which only the advertisements remained intact. He began to re-photograph the advertisements and compose his own pictures from this highly familiar, "Pop" imagery - updating Pop Art's homage to consumerism and its icons in the 1960s. Recently Prince's work has taken an unexpected turn, and the artist has emerged as a consummate painter, producing some of the most unusual and admired works in the current painting scene. Prince is one of America's best-known artists internationally, and in 1992 was honoured with a one-person retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other museums which have held solo shows of Prince's work include the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; IVAM, Valencia; and the Haus der Kunst, Munich, among many others.
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Rosetta Brooks (Survey) is an art critic and curator based in Pioneertown, California. She is currently a Core Faculty member of the MA 'Art Criticism and Cultural Theory' course at the Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, California. Formerly editor of the London-based ZG magazine, Brooks authored Richard Prince's 1992 catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and has written on such artists as Edward Kienholz, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmar Polke and Victor Burgin. Author's Residence: Pioneertown, California Jeff Rian (Interview) is a writer and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nimes. He is an editor of Purple magazine and the author of Buckshot Lexicon (2000) and Lewis Baltz (Phaidon 55s, 2001). Rian contributes regularly to Art in America and Flash Art magazines. Author's Residence: Paris Luc Sante (Focus), is the author of Low Life (1991), Evidence (1992), The Factory of Facts (1998), and Walker Evans (Phaidon 55s, 2001), and is co-editor of OK You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (1999). He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Author's Residence: Kingston, New York For his Artist's Choice, Richard Prince is the first artist in the Contemporary Artists series to select song lyrics: Fallen for You (1992) by Shiela Nicholls, a young and little-known singer/songwriter from Essex, England, now based in Los Angeles. Richard Prince is a talented writer, noted for his understated humour and dry style. The lengthy Artists Writings include examples of his fiction (among them, 'The Velvet Wall' 1993, a love story), confessions of a serial junk collector ('Bringing It All Back Home', 1988) and interviews with figures ranging from the novelist J.G. Ballard to artist Barbara Kruger. Artist's Residence: Renssalaerville, New York
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A princely catalogue
18 Oct 2007
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Since I will not be lucky enough to see the exhibition at the Guggenheim, I am very happy to be able to say that this is one of the best art books I have ordered so far. It lists and illustrates the bulk of Prince's major series (the original ad pictures from the 1970's, stripped of all text, the cowboy photos,the joke paintings, the nurse paintings,the latest 2006 "De Kooning" paintings which are a complete discovery, and many more). The illustrations are wonderful and do justice to the scope and depth of the artist's oeuvre.
The book starts with an enlightening essay by curator Nancy Spector who shows how Prince's appropriation art resulted in one of the most profound analyses of contemporary American culture. Another valuable chapter of the book is a collection of interviews of various personalities (collectors, intellectuals, magazine editors, writers, cartoonists...)who have been in some way or other in contact with Richard Prince and his works and who give their own often sensible and knowledgeable opinion on it.
Highly recommended.
The book starts with an enlightening essay by curator Nancy Spector who shows how Prince's appropriation art resulted in one of the most profound analyses of contemporary American culture. Another valuable chapter of the book is a collection of interviews of various personalities (collectors, intellectuals, magazine editors, writers, cartoonists...)who have been in some way or other in contact with Richard Prince and his works and who give their own often sensible and knowledgeable opinion on it.
Highly recommended.
Great Retrospective
13 Nov 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was first introduced to Prince at his retrospective held at the Guggenheim (which this book is based on). It was an amazing exhibit and for those of you who missed it, this book captures it quite nicely. The introduction is extremely well written and I highly recommend you read it if you want to get a better understanding of the artist. The materials of the book are top notch and present nearly all of Prince's work. The end of the book also has some great essay's inspired by Prince and the concepts he invokes but not necessarily about him. Some very interesting people contribute including the cartoon editor for The New Yorker and an editor at Hustler.
A great book.
1 Sep 2011
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I gave up the dream of owning a Richard Prince years ago, so this is as close as I will ever get to having one. It is good to know the history behind his work. Those details help explain the process that goes into each piece. I am really happy that I purchased the book.
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