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Richard Prince

Good Revolution (for Parkett)

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500
£625
Lot Details
Presentation gold record mounted to chromogenic print, the full sheet,
1992
52 x 41.9 cm (20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)
signed in black ink, with the incised title, date and numbering '24/80' on a plaque affixed to the work (there were also 20 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Parkett Editions, New York and Zurich, framed.
Catalogue Essay
Includes a playable vinyl record by the artist, recorded both sides, Good Revolution (1:46); and Don’t Belong (1:46), arranged and performed by Richard Prince, recorded and mixed at Harmonic Ranch by Mark Degliantoni, September 1992

Richard Prince

American | 1947
For more than three decades, Prince's universally celebrated practice has pursued the subversive strategy of appropriating commonplace imagery and themes – such as photographs of quintessential Western cowboys and "biker chicks," the front covers of nurse romance novellas, and jokes and cartoons – to deconstruct singular notions of authorship, authenticity and identity.Starting his career as a member of the Pictures Generation in the 1970s alongside such contemporaries as Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and Sherrie Levine, Prince is widely acknowledged as having expanded the accepted parameters of art-making with his so-called "re-photography" technique – a revolutionary appropriation strategy of photographing pre-existing images from magazine ads and presenting them as his own. Prince's practice of appropriating familiar subject matter exposes the inner mechanics of desire and power pervading the media and our cultural consciousness at large, particularly as they relate to identity and gender constructs.
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