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Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979
Richard Prince Early Photographs 19771979 Author:Richard Prince By manipulating the means and products of mass media, Richard Prince gives his viewers a glimpse of American culture as directed toward middle-class consumers. His appropriations of living rooms, watches, and sophisticated couples and individuals turn the informative nature of the original advertisement into cultural indicators of borrowed and f... more »ictional representation. 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. None of Richard Prince's images are unfamiliar; they are taken from the classic icons of product fetishism and satisfied desire ... Prince selects them both for their typicality and for their strangeness or unreality--for their overloaded intensity ... the supe-real extravagance of their particulars, which are carefully naturalized as real. --Kate Linker, "Art Magazine" (November 1982)
With selected writings by Richard Prince. 12 x 8 in.