Richard Prince - Tiffany Paintings
Gagosian Gallery
· 2010
· Author: McWhinnie, John, Richard Prince Language: English Pages: 66 Size: 30.5 x 25.4 cm Weight: 1.3600 kg Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781935263135 Availability: - Price: [Request price.](https://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/contacts) Product DescriptionCondition: MINT Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and related newsprint collages by Richard Prince. Prince first attracted attention in the early 1980s with images re-photographed from magazine ads, through which he defined for himself the concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura. Applying his understanding of the complex transactions of representation to the making of art, he has evolved a unique signature filled with echoes of other signatures yet that is unquestionably his own. Begun in 2004 at the juncture of the Nurse and De Kooning paintings and evolving through the Canal Zone and After Dark series, the Tiffany paintings reflect Prince's continuing attentiveness to the recurring patterns and suggestive potential of advertising, honed by years of perusing newspapers and magazines. These almost abstract, monochrome paintings treat the plain yet distinctive ads that New York's most famous jewelry brand has run daily for many years in the upper right hand corner of the same page of The New York Times, while echoing associations with another classic, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, whose object of desire Holly Golightly lures admirers only to elude them later. 1st Edition
Published in an edition of 2,000 for the 2010 Gagosian Gallery exhibition, this catalog documents Richard Prince's Tiffany Paintings series. The works appropriate advertisements from Tiffany & Co., isolating jewelry imagery against monochrome grounds to create paintings that examine luxury, desire, and brand mythology. The catalog includes 42 reproductions of works from the exhibition, a complete checklist, and an essay by John McWhinnie titled 'Breakfast at Tiffany's, painting.' Housed in a printed cloth-covered slipcase, the publication itself functions as luxury object, mirroring the high-end brand aesthetics of the appropriated source material. The Tiffany Paintings extend Prince's practice of transforming commercial imagery into high art, questioning the boundaries between advertising, fine art, and luxury consumption.
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Gagosian Gallery
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richardprince.com
Year
2010
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9781935263135
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Author: McWhinnie, John, Richard Prince Language: English Pages: 66 Size: 30.5 x 25.4 cm Weight: 1.3600 kg Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781935263135 Availability: - Price: [Request price.](https://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/contacts) Product DescriptionCondition: MINT Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and related newsprint collages by Richard Prince. Prince first attracted attention in the early 1980s with images re-photographed from magazine ads, through which he defined for himself the concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura. Applying his understanding of the complex transactions of representation to the making of art, he has evolved a unique signature filled with echoes of other signatures yet that is unquestionably his own. Begun in 2004 at the juncture of the Nurse and De Kooning paintings and evolving through the Canal Zone and After Dark series, the Tiffany paintings reflect Prince's continuing attentiveness to the recurring patterns and suggestive potential of advertising, honed by years of perusing newspapers and magazines. These almost abstract, monochrome paintings treat the plain yet distinctive ads that New York's most famous jewelry brand has run daily for many years in the upper right hand corner of the same page of The New York Times, while echoing associations with another classic, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, whose object of desire Holly Golightly lures admirers only to elude them later. 1st Edition
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