Research Catalog

Title

Richard Prince : cowboy / edited and introduced by Robert M. Rubin.

Author

Prince, Richard, 1949-

Publication

[New York] : Fulton Ryder ; Munich : DelMonico Books · Prestel, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rubin, Robert M.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

484 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

In the mid-1970s, Richard Prince was an aspiring painter working in Time Inc.'s tear sheet department clipping texts for magazine writers. After he removed the articles, he was left with advertisements: glossy pictures of commodities, models, and other objects of desire. He began to re-photograph the advertisements, cropping and enlarging them, and selling the artworks as his own. Prince paid particular attention to the motif of the cowboy, often depicted in advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes. He had an explosive effect on the art world, provoking lawsuits and setting auction records for contemporary photography. More recently, he has revisited copies of TIME from the 1980s and 90s using contemporary technology to produce a new series of work, extending his preoccupation with the cowboy in the era of Instagram to demonstrate that the stakes around originality, appropriation, and truth in advertising are as high as ever. This book showcases how Prince has mined the mythological American West within the artwork he produced during the last four decades. Each chapter contains a brief introduction, followed by artwork by Prince, and concludes with a section of related ephemera, relics, and fragments that aid in contextualising Prince's work. Once again challenging the conventional limits of photography, Prince is reigniting the debate he sparked forty years ago through the lens of cowboys and the West.

Alternative Title

Cowboy

Subject

• Prince, Richard, 1949- > Exhibitions
• Prince, Richard, 1949-
• Conceptual art > United States > Exhibitions
• Cowboys in art > Exhibitions
• Appropriation (Art) > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Appropriation (Art)
• Conceptual art
• Cowboys in art
• Photography, Artistic
• United States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• Following an exhibition held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, December 3, 2017 - March 25, 2018.

Contents

Foreword / Michael Govan -- Way out west: on the frontiers of appropriation with Richard Prince / Robert M. Rubin -- This ain't my first rodeo -- Bookstore cowboy -- Studio shots I -- Death rides a horse -- Gunfighter -- Whoops I'm a cowboy -- Studio shots II -- Boots and saddle -- Cowboys and girlfriends -- Untitled (cowboy), 2016- -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Selected bibliography.

Call Number

JQG 21-97

ISBN

• 9783791359687
• 3791359681

LCCN

9783791359687

OCLC

1145774331

Author

Prince, Richard, 1949- author.

Title

Richard Prince : cowboy / edited and introduced by Robert M. Rubin.

Publisher

[New York] : Fulton Ryder ; Munich : DelMonico Books · Prestel, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482) and index.

Exhibitions

Following an exhibition held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, December 3, 2017 - March 25, 2018.

Added Author

Rubin, Robert M., editor.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783791359687

Research Call Number

JQG 21-97