April 12, 2024
Richard Prince Spiritual America 1st Original 1989 ED
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Richard Prince Spiritual America Spiritual America.Preface by Corinne Diserens and Vicente Todoli. "Interview" by J.G. Ballard. IVAM/Coll-leccio Centre del Carme, Valencia, 1989. 135 pages. First edition. Original edition. Stiff photo-illustrated wrappers. Numerous color reproductions. Chronology, bibliography and excerpts from artist's writings. "Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making—one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off-color jokes, gag cartoons, and pulp fiction. While previous examinations of his art have emphasized its central role as a catalyst for postmodernist criticism, the Guggenheim exhibition and its accompanying catalogue also focus on the work's iconography and how it registers prevalent themes in our social landscape, including a fascination with rebellion, an obsession with
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