Richard Prince
Untitled 2 personer
2014
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
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Richard Prince
b. 1949, Panama Canal Zone · American · Based in Upstate New York, USA
- Self-taught artist
- Re-photography
- Cowboys
- Nurse Paintings
- Joke Paintings
Richard Prince became a central figure in appropriation art by rephotographing advertisements, especially Marlboro cowboys, and later by making joke paintings, nurse paintings and works based on social-media imagery. His practice repeatedly tests authorship, originality, copyright and the circulation of mass images.
Photography; painting; appropriation
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Cowboy)
2016
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
Major Works
- 1989Untitled (Cowboy) →
- 1980sCowboys series
- 1983Spiritual America
- 1980s–90sJoke Paintings
- 2002–06Nurse Paintings
- 1990sGirlfriends
- 2014New Portraits
- 2007–08Canal Zone
- 1980Untitled (Three Men’s Hands with Watches)
- 1980sHoods
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