Four of Richard Prince's Cowboy prints are reproduced in brilliant colourat the centre of this large scale publication. The double spreads of luminous American landscapes and re-photographed, cropped and re-appropraited images of original Marlboro Country iconography. For Gordon Burn in his introductory essay Prince presents a new way of reading these images. he examines how the artists 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 multiplicity and the uncanny.
| ISBN: | 9781906957032 |
| Publication date: | 10th February 2010 |
| Author: | Richard Prince |
| Publisher: | Other Criteria |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 32 pages |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics History of art Individual artists, art monographs |