This text is Richard Prince's personal artist's diary of ten years. Prince is a collector of varied specimens of visual culture - advertisements, trivial facts, odd photographs, sketches for paintings, meaningful pictures, and banal media images. He has often called his work social science fiction. This is Prince's docu-drama serial adventure into media imagery. The book includes his satire of the Playboy bunny as a death's head, the biker mamas, the Marlboro cowboys, Mike Kelley in performance, comic books, worn-out jokes, ...
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This text is Richard Prince's personal artist's diary of ten years. Prince is a collector of varied specimens of visual culture - advertisements, trivial facts, odd photographs, sketches for paintings, meaningful pictures, and banal media images. He has often called his work social science fiction. This is Prince's docu-drama serial adventure into media imagery. The book includes his satire of the Playboy bunny as a death's head, the biker mamas, the Marlboro cowboys, Mike Kelley in performance, comic books, worn-out jokes, newspaper fillers, and banal photographs.
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First edition with 235 vibrant color images of his whimsical "postmodern landscape" (Roth). Quarto, original blue cloth. Signed by Richard Prince on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "An autobiography through words and pictures… Adult Comedy Action Drama links together Prince's drawings, aphorisms, original photographs and photographs of other peoples' photographs. Lighthearted and funny, it describes and theatricalizes the visual 'stage set' of an artist's life, enacting all the comedies, actions and dramas with pictures alone. Prince's is a postmodern landscape, where one becomes what one beholds" (Roth, 30). "Prince updates the old Modernist flirtation between the intellectual and the supposedly primitive… borrowing conceptual and aesthetic strategies from Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Minimalism and the photography-as-painting movement" (New York Times). Open Book, 366. Roth, 274.
