基本説明
This book will be the first to provide an overview of Prince's work, from the early 'found' photograph works to the recent paintings.
Full Description
Richard Prince (b.1949) emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists working with the margins of America's subcultures and visual debris. The appropriation and re-presentation of highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, off-colour cartoons, cowboys ('borrowed' from Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are essential to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was working for the cutting services of Time Life publications in New York, where he had access to thousands of cut-up magazines in which only the advertisements remained intact. He began to re-photograph the advertisements and compose his own pictures from this highly familiar imagery, updating 1960s Pop art's homage to consumerism and its icons. Decades later, his career took an unexpected turn, and the artist emerged as a consummate painter, producing some of the most unusual and intensely admired works in the current painting scene. Prince is one of America's best known artists and in 1992 was honoured with a one-person retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other museums that have held solo shows of Prince's work include the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, IVAM in Valencia and the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Prince's highly readable Interview with Jeff Rian ranges in its subject matter from rock and roll to folk art, from criminals to celebrities, as well as his experiences and history as an artist. In her Survey, Rosetta Brooks examines the variety in Prince's art through two key themes: the notion of artistic authenticity and the artist's construction of his own beguiling personality. Renowned photography critic Luc Sante takes a close look at one of Prince's best known and most disturbing series, Girlfriends, a confounding combination of sexiness and sexism. For his Artist's Choice Prince has selected the lyrics from "Fallen for You", a 1992 pop song by singer/songwriter Sheila Nicholls. Prince's signature laconic writing style is represented by autobiography, fiction, observations and confessions.
Contents
Interview - Prince's highly readable discussion with art critic Jeff Rian ranges in its subject matter from rock 'n' roll, to folk art, to criminals and celebrities, as well as his experiences and history as an artist. - Survey - Critic Rosetta Brooks examines the variety in Prince's art through two key themes: the notion of artistic 'authenticity' and the artist's construction of his own beguiling personality. - Focus - Renowned photography critic Luc Sante takes a close look at one of Prince's best-known and most disturbing series, Girlfriends, a confounding combination of sexiness and sexism. - Artist's Choice - the lyrics from Fallen for You, a 1992 pop song by singer/songwriter Shiela Nicholls ('I think about you all the time/Walking around the Guggenheim') reflect both the romantic and the unconventional nature of Prince's own work. - Artist's Writings - Autobiography, fiction, observations and confessions make up the selection of Prince's signature writing style, alongside key interviews with and by the artist since 1967. - Chronology and Bibliography
