ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Richard Prince

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


"Prince has been making T-Shirt paintings since 1987, dating to the year of his first monochromatic joke painting. Counter to the ordered up, pre-stretched monochromes, these play as their poor stepbrother, and their brilliant antidote. Working class, white trash, 'action painting' versions that counter the pristine paintings made with the high-brow in mind. Prince blithely flips the screen print from Factory to T-Shirt shop. Making art is rarely a struggle for him."
Jeanne Greenberg, excerpted from Richard Prince: Hippie Punk in Richard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings.

             

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Richard Prince: Same Man

LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Edited by Malou Wedel Bruun, Anders Kold. Text by Nancy Spector, Anders Kold.

An ingenious and collectible book-as-poster documenting Prince’s half-century of image appropriation

Special edition, 12 x 12 in. / poster / 22 color / 3 bw. | 5/16/2023 | In stock
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Richard Prince: The Entertainers

FULTON RYDER

Prince explores American celebrity and desire through the lens of Times Square

Hbk, 9.75 x 13 in. / 152 pgs / 135 color. | 8/15/2023 | In stock
$75.00


Richard Prince: New Paintings

FULTON RYDER

An artist's book of “social science fiction” presenting new work and writing by Richard Prince

Clth, 9 x 12.5 in. / 377 pgs / 370 color. | 9/13/2022 | In stock
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Richard Prince: Hoods

FULTON RYDER

An artist’s book by Richard Prince that looks back on a 25-year body of work

Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 179 pgs / 170 color. | 6/7/2022 | Out of stock
$75.00


Richard Prince: Super Group

HOLZWARTH PUBLICATIONS
Text by Richard Prince.

Hbk, 11.5 x 14 in. / 92 pgs / 61 color. | 6/12/2018 | In stock
$65.00


Richard Prince: Lynn Valley 1

WALTHER KöNIG/BYWATER BROS. ED./PRESENTATION HOUSE

Paperback, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 46 pgs / 46 color. | 7/1/2007 | In stock
$35.00


Richard Prince: Jokes and Cartoons

JRP|RINGIER
Edited by Beatrix Ruf.

Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 107 color. | 8/15/2006 | In stock
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Richard Prince: It's a Free Concert

KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior. Text by Paul Black, Yilmaz Dziewior, Richard Prince, Kerstin Stakemeier.

Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 3/24/2015 | Not available
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Richard Prince: White Paintings

SKARSDEDT

Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 55 pgs / 27 color / 1 bw. | 1/31/2014 | Not available
$30.00


Richard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings

JRP|RINGIER
Edited by Fabienne Stephan. Text by Jeanne Greenberg.

Pbk, 7.75 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / 63 color. | 7/31/2011 | Not available
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Richard Prince: 3rd Place

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 82 pgs / 72 bw. | 9/1/2008 | Not available
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Richard Prince: America Goes to War, Swimming in the Afternoon

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Pbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 113 color. | 3/1/2009 | Not available
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Richard Prince

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Text by Nancy Spector, Glenn O'Brien, Jack Bankowsky.

Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 438 color. | 10/1/2007 | Not available
$60.00


Richard Prince: Hippie Drawings

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Richard Brautigan.

Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 104 pgs / 100 color. | 4/1/2006 | Not available
$40.00


Richard Prince: Man

JRP|RINGIER
Artwork by Richard Prince.

Paperback, 7.75 x 11 in. / 88 pgs / 88 color. | 3/15/2005 | Not available
$35.00


Richard Prince: Women

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Shaun Caley Regen.

Hardcover, 7.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 196 color | 4/2/2004 | Not available
$40.00


Richard Prince: American English

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Sadie Coles.

Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 134 pgs / 124 color | 8/2/2003 | Not available
$35.00


Richard Prince: Paintings-Photographs

HATJE CANTZ
Essays by Bernard Mendes Bürgi, Beatrix Ruf and Bruce Hainley.

Slipcased, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 402 pgs / 368 color. | 8/2/2002 | Not available
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Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979

SKARSTEDT FINE ART
With selected writings by Richard Prince.

Hardcover, 12 x 8 in. / 47 pgs / 51 color | 2/2/2002 | Not available
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Richard Prince: The Girl Next Door

HATJE CANTZ
Artwork by Richard Prince. Edited by Peter Noever.

Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 64 pgs / 64 color | 7/2/2000 | Not available
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Richard Prince: The EntertainersRichard Prince: The Entertainers

1982–1983

Published by Fulton Ryder.

This new artist’s book by Richard Prince (born 1949) revisits a seldom seen body of work made during his "Time Life" years spent around the theaters, grind houses, bars and restaurants of New York's 42nd Street and Times Square. In an introductory essay titled "The Counterfeit Memory," first published in 1981, the artist describes wandering into the Orleans Theater, writing that "I'm not sure who I am when I'm there or if, in fact, I'm comfortable and want to be there at all. One's identity it seems is easily changed when what's in front of you is reversed and transparent, directed and produced."
In artworks that include some of his earliest portraits, Prince captures the ephemeral, photographic celebrity of publicity headshots, gossip columns, nightclub advertisements and pornographic films, alongside finely rendered drawings such as "Montgomery Clift as Sigmund Freud" and "George Reeves as Himself." In The Entertainers' concluding essay, "The Lone Ranger," the artist states, "I think I'll go after third place ... leave first for the hero."



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Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 152 pgs / 135 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 78   

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Richard Prince: Same ManRichard Prince: Same Man

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by Malou Wedel Bruun, Anders Kold. Text by Nancy Spector, Anders Kold.

For aficionados of Richard Prince (born 1949) and of the possibilities of the book form, this unique exhibition catalog is an exclusive three-in-one kind of publication. Designed in the dimensions of a 12-by-12-inch LP record and housed in a plastic sleeve, when unfolded it transforms into a two-sided (one English, one Danish) poster with a richly illustrated collage of works by Prince from across his career (including his famous "rephotographs"), plus two in-depth texts on Prince’s oeuvre by the curators Nancy Spector and Anders Kold.
A defining figure of the Pictures Generation, Prince is famed for his radical acts of appropriation, which have taken many turns across the course of his five-decade career. His visual world, encapsulated in this innovatively designed volume, offers a remarkably consistent portrait of late 20th-century America.



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Richard Prince: HoodsRichard Prince: Hoods

1988–2013

Published by Fulton Ryder.

Created by the artist Richard Prince (born 1949) in parallel to a major survey show, Hoods is both a monograph and an artist’s book focused on a celebrated collection of painted sculptures made from 1988 through 2013. Archival photographs in the book document the evolution of the Hoods, cataloging both the artworks and Richard Prince’s mythical “Body Shop” and the destroyed “Second House” in Upstate New York.
In an interview with photographer Larry Clark, Prince stated that “With the Hoods, I wanted to paint something that was already painted.” From this simple act of conceptual appropriation, Prince evolved a massive body of work that engages deeply with the vernacular design tradition of the customized American muscle car. Taken all together, the sculptures, the upstate Body Shop and Prince’s own photo-documentation evoke both ambiguous nostalgia as well as feelings of absence and loss, perhaps best expressed in a sampling of the artwork titles: Almost Grown; American Place; Folksongs; Vanishing Point.



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Richard Prince: New PaintingsRichard Prince: New Paintings

Published by Fulton Ryder.

Richard Prince (born 1949) continues his revival of the Fulton Ryder imprint with an artist’s book that is both a monograph of new artworks and an expansive written statement on art history, personal biography and the contemporary impulse to create self-images. At first glance, the New Paintings are in a similar vein as Prince's New Portraits. However, unlike that series, the New Paintings focuses on portraits of painters painting on Instagram, very often with back to the camera, facing away from the viewer. The resulting images are ambiguously manipulated; the series is self-described as an act of “social science fiction.” The image captions, integral to the artwork, contain a dense “Bird Talk” text, including ambiguous autobiography and art history commentary.
Joan Katz offers some explanation in a comment found in a New Painting, stating: “Deep Nostalgia. Legitimate Doubts. Safeguards to prevent misuse. Digital imitation. Resemblance without manipulations. Skilled impersonations. Staged illusions. Imitation of Life (the sequel). It’s difficult to know if it’s new or just another resurrection. #post_place.”



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Richard Prince: Super GroupRichard Prince: Super Group

Published by Holzwarth Publications.
Text by Richard Prince.

While Richard Prince (born 1949) is most often discussed for his strategies as an appropriation artist—from the Marlboro cowboys in the 1980s to the Instagram portraits today—it is his own work as a painter that stands at the center of his approach: starting with paintings of jokes and cartoons, following up with, among other things, nurses and cowboys taken from the covers of dime novels, and freewheeling riffs on Picasso and de Kooning.

For his extensive new series Super Group, Prince uses objects loaded with meaning: the inner sleeves of vinyl records, which he collages on canvas and then overpaints with band names, abstract washes and funny figures. Richard Prince: Super Group presents 51 works in this new series, engaging with the question of how we define ourselves by our choices of objects, images and music.



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Hardcover, 11.5 x 14 in. / 92 pgs / 61 color.

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Richard Prince: It's a Free ConcertRichard Prince: It's a Free Concert

Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior. Text by Paul Black, Yilmaz Dziewior, Richard Prince, Kerstin Stakemeier.

Richard Prince's (born 1949) pieces in It's a Free Concert demonstrate the artist's extraordinary range of media usage. This publication focuses on Prince's series of appropriations, while also serving as an overview of the renowned contemporary artist's oeuvre to date.

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Kunsthaus Bregenz

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Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Richard Prince: White PaintingsRichard Prince: White Paintings

Published by Skarsdedt.

Celebrated for his appropriation of advertising images and photographs during the early 1970s, Richard Prince (born 1949) began in the 1980s to explore the relationship between image and language, pairing jokes from books and magazines with referential and non-referential imagery. In the 1990s, his Joke paintings transformed from rigidly composed works into freefloating combinations of jokes and stripped-down layered imagery. The White Paintings are raw and energetic in comparison to his earlier work. Here, handwritten and printed jokes mingle with gestural marks, silkscreened imagery and graphic fragments, all strewn across a white-pigmented backdrop. Prince’s hand is present in these works, with their painterly white texture, spirited whorls and handwritten elements. 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.

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Paperback, 8.5 x 12 in. / 55 pgs / 27 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 189   

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Richard Prince: T-Shirt PaintingsRichard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited by Fabienne Stephan. Text by Jeanne Greenberg.

Richard Prince (born 1949) has a connoisseur's eye for American iconography, and an artist's knack for transforming that iconography into art forms: car hoods, signed photographs, adverts--and T-shirts. Casually stretched over frames to poke fun at the grandeur of the tautly stretched canvas, and messily painted or silkscreened, the T-shirts are more intimate in scale than much of Prince's recent work. They also offer a kind of mini-survey of his career, ranging in subject from jokes to abstractions to images of hippies or rock icons like Jimi Hendrix (one imagines the artist packing the T-shirts in a valise like Duchamp as a miniaturized retrospective). One series, done for the artist's daughter, tread less familiar terrain, with images of animal and flower drawings. Presented together in this volume for the first time, they affirm Prince's ongoing appropriation of the American vernacular.

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Paperback, 7.75 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / 63 color.

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Richard Prince: Four CowboysRichard Prince: Four Cowboys

Published by Other Criteria Books/Murderme.

Four of Richard Prince's Cowboy prints are reproduced in brilliant colour at the centre of this large-scale publication. The double spreads of luminous American landscapes are re-photographed, cropped and re- appropriated images of original Marlboro Country iconography. For Gordon Burn, in his accompanying essay, Prince presents a new way of reading these images. He examines how the artist has deconstructed the efforts of lighting, costume and make-up used in the production of hyper-masculine cowboys. Burn dissects the implications of nostalgia for a commodified, advertised Americana and discusses Prince's interest in multiplicityand the uncanny.

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Clth, 11.75 x 15 in. / 32 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Richard Prince: America Goes to War, Swimming in the AfternoonRichard Prince: America Goes to War, Swimming in the Afternoon

Published by Walther König, Köln.

One of the most innovative and influential artists of our time, Richard Prince can be variously described as a painter, photographer, sculptor and collector. His work makes use of an eclectic range of approaches to explore his fascination with Americana, pop culture, art, literature and language. This volume, published to accompany his 2008 exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery, is envisioned as a continuation of Prince's major 2007 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York--albeit in a smaller and more personal setting. Prince leads the book off with an essay that was first published in Art in America in 1988. Entitled "Bringing It All Back Home," this text serves as the introduction for what is essentially an autonomous artist's book filled with photographs of his works and installations. An end section on different paper features additional texts and a list of exhibitions.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 113 color.

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Richard Prince: 3rd PlaceRichard Prince: 3rd Place

A Children's Colouring Book

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Within this children's coloring book for grown-ups, readers will find 72 messy, funny, sometimes risqué black-and-white line drawings of people, monsters, robots and flowers. Is there a nude, bearded guy with peace symbols for eyes? Sure. A mummy? Yes again. How about a stick figure with ears that grow up over the top of his head or a female nude with a crude black pirate patch over one demonic eye? Check, and check again. For lovers of Richard Prince, one of the foremost American artists of the Pictures generation, or for anyone with an off-beat sense of humor, this is a must-have artist's book, produced on the occasion of Prince's 2008 Serpentine Gallery exhibition. As Roberta Smith wrote in her 2007 review of Prince's major mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, "Practically every last American could find something familiar, if usually a bit unsettling, in his work." Adults--and children too.

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Walther König, Köln

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Richard Prince: Lynn Valley 1Richard Prince: Lynn Valley 1

Published by Walther König/Bywater Bros. Ed./Presentation House.

This nicely produced, staple-bound pamphlet is the first in a new series of artist-designed publications, scheduled to come out three times per year. This first issue contains a selection of works by Richard Prince, the influential New York artist who first created controversy in the 1970s by working with appropriated imagery--then a quite radical concept. Weighing in at only 46 pages, this slim volume nevertheless contains representative samples of all of Prince's most famous work: biker girls, nurses, sculptures, paintings, tattoo pornography, jokes, and other assorted incendiary images. The next issue of Lynn Valley will be designed by Cologne artist Johannes Wohnseifer.

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Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 157   

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Richard PrinceRichard Prince

Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications.
Text by Nancy Spector, Glenn O'Brien, Jack Bankowsky.

For 30 years now, the American artist Richard Prince has been considered one of the most forward-thinking and innovative artists in the world. In 1977, his deceptively simple act of re-photographing advertising images from The New York Times Magazine and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to making art--one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation, and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility, with images stemming from the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off-color jokes, gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels, among many other sources. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this major traveling retrospective brings together Prince's photographs, paintings, sculptures and works on paper in the most comprehensive examination of his work to date. While previous examinations of Prince's work have emphasized its catalytic role in Postmodernist criticism, this volume also focuses on the work's iconography and how it registers prevalent themes in our social landscape, including a fascination with rebellion, an obsession with fame and a preoccupation with the tawdry and the illicit.
Highlighting key examples from the all the major series of Prince's oeuvre, this fully illustrated volume also debuts works created specifically for the exhibition. It features a critical overview by the Guggenheim Museum's Nancy Spector and an essay by Artforum Editor-at-Large Jack Bankowsky, which discusses Prince's environmental installations, including the Spiritual America Gallery, his First House and Second House, and his Library in Upstate New York. In addition, cultural commentator Glenn O'Brien contributes a series of interviews with popular culture initiators like Annie Proulx, Phyllis Diller, John Waters, Michael Ovitz, Kim Gordon and Robert Mankoff, among many others, providing a composite portrait of Prince's themes alongside an insider's view of the formation of mass-cultural taste.

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Guggenheim Museum Publications

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Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 438 color.

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Richard Prince: Hippie DrawingsRichard Prince: Hippie Drawings

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Richard Brautigan.

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 joyful colors recall children's drawings or paintings by the mentally ill. Half-figures of indeterminate gender with staring eyes, big ears and frizzy hair smirk challengingly at the viewer, offering an inventory of possibilities, many of which later find their way into Prince's joke paintings of the same period. This extraordinary little book presents these funny yet sinister works to a larger public for the first time, and allows readers to discover a new side of Richard Prince's oeuvre.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 104 pgs / 100 color.

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Richard Prince: Jokes and CartoonsRichard Prince: Jokes and Cartoons

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited by Beatrix Ruf.

In conveying the seriousness with which he sees and uses his lighthearted material, Richard Prince has said, "Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine. Especially magazines like The New Yorker or Playboy. They're right up there with the editorial and advertisements and table of contents and letters to the editors. They're part of the layout, part of the Îsights' and Îgags.' Sometimes they're political, sometimes they just make fun of everyday life. Once in a while they drive people to protest and storm foreign embassies and kill people. Prince has always recycled found materials from American popular culture, most often images from advertisements and magazine photography. He re-photographs, silkscreens, overpaints, frames, enlarges or composes collages, playing with the material's somehow empty meaning. Citation, deflection, appropriation: every treatment is explored and played with. Among these works, as among the pages of the magazines, jokes and cartoons occupy an important place. This book, conceived by the artist, assembles for the first time the raw material of the creation of his "Joke Paintings"--not just the well-known works, but never-before-seen examples from his personal collection, his unpublished manuscripts and the original cartoons and jokes themselves.

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 107 color.

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Richard Prince: ManRichard Prince: Man

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Artwork by Richard Prince.

Richard Prince presents in Man his subversive and ironic choices of images of men and masculinity. Spanning the entire spectrum of artistic media, Prince creates paintings, object art, drawing, photographs and collages. Materials from literary texts as well as cartoons and often crude, sexually- and male-oriented jokes find their way into his art, thus further allowing the artist to cross conventional borders. Within this book we see Prince's American cowboy photographs (one of his preferred motifs in which the text is often altered), his self-portraits, his paintings of jokes and texts, his altered ads and his sketches (such as the one of Snow White and the seven dwarfs in compromising positions). This well-designed and reproduced publication, featuring nearly 90 color images, is a true artist's book, conceived by Prince himself.

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Paperback, 7.75 x 11 in. / 88 pgs / 88 color.

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Richard Prince: WomenRichard Prince: Women

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Shaun Caley Regen.

Perfectly beautiful yet strangely faceless, hundreds of interchangeable fashion models and bare-breasted biker chicks find themselves reincarnated in the artwork of Richard Prince. Prince recycles these American (male) pop culture fantasies from found materials, most often advertising images and magazine layouts which he rephotographs, repaints or overpaints, arranges in collages, or breaks down into fragments. Images of women representing various spheres of trivial culture, marketing iconography like the Marlboro Man, and figures borrowed from chauvinist cartoons are central motifs in his art. Without comment, Prince cites and duplicates them in supposedly defunct role clichªs that remain stubbornly present even today. Women goes even further, presenting a diverse yet decidedly thematic selection of appropriations chosen by the artist himself and ranging across his body of work. From bad sexist jokes to the covers of books written by female authors, from rockin' out naked biker chicks to Kate Moss, from a rephotographed Untitled Film Still to penny-novel nurses--these are Richard Prince's Women.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 196 color

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2004

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775714518 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CDN $50.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 8/1/2007

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Richard Prince: American EnglishRichard Prince: American English

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Sadie Coles.

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 for the bibliophile and a special kind of cultural history from an artist's point of view.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 134 pgs / 124 color

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Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2004

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ISBN 9783883757179 SDNR30
List Price: $35.00 CDN $40.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 8/15/2005

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Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979

Published by Skarstedt Fine Art.
With selected writings by 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 fictional 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.

PUBLISHER
Skarstedt Fine Art

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 8 in. / 47 pgs / 51 color

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2002

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780970909008 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CDN $35.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 10/23/2003

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Richard Prince: Paintings-Photographs

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Essays by Bernard Mendes Bürgi, Beatrix Ruf and Bruce Hainley.

Silk Cut smokes, high-end pens and watches, jewelry dangling into cleavage, the Marlboro Man, the very young Brooke Shields in that movie still, bare-chested blondes on bikes--this is the stuff of Richard Prince's photographs. Sexist jokes, Playboy magazine cartoons, and grafittied doodles are the stuff of his paintings. Or rather, all of these icons of mass culture are the materials that Prince recycles and processes in order to make his own artworks. Re-photographed, fragmented, layered, and copied down, their original format irreversibly if subtly altered, they are transformed into works of high art. By appropriating a reality artificially staged by the media, Prince assesses and catalogues everyday life in America through the cool gaze of an archivist. At the same time, he returns a piece of life to these much abused types: the Marlboro Man rides across the prairie free of consumerist underpinnings. Conceived of and designed by the artist himself, this large-format, two volume publication is the most ambitious presentation of Prince's work to date. One book is devoted to paintings, the other to photographs, and an accompanying booklet offers a radical essay by Bruce Hainley as well as a complete biography and selected bibliography.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Slipcased, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 402 pgs / 368 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2002

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775791113 TRADE
List Price: $75.00 CDN $90.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 11/15/2006

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Richard Prince: The Girl Next DoorRichard Prince: The Girl Next Door

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Artwork by Richard Prince. Edited by Peter Noever.



PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 64 pgs / 64 color

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
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Catalog: FALL 2000

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775709477 TRADE
List Price: $14.95 CDN $17.50

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STATUS: Out of print | 12/19/2005

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