Richard Prince

A retrospective catalog accompanying Richard Prince's major Albertina Museum survey (Vienna, on view through 16 August 2026), curated by Walter Moser.

The volume gathers approximately 150 works spanning Prince's practice from the 1970s to the present and presents his photographic work alongside forays into installation, drawing, painting, and collage. Iconic series (including the Cowboys, the Fashion pieces, and the rephotographed advertising images that established Prince as a central figure of Appropriation Art) appear alongside rarely seen and previously unpublished material.

Essays by Christian Liclair, Walter Moser, Nicole Scheyerer, Eva Kernbauer, Sydney Stutterheim, and Thomas D. Trummer address collage and montage technique, mythical masculinity, spiritual imagery, portraiture, and the conceptual stakes of appropriation. A foreword by Ralph Gleis frames the catalog within the Albertina's program. Prince's strategy, removing commercial context from images already saturated by media use and then re-staging them as art, interrogates authorship, originality, and the cultural codes embedded in American consumer imagery. 280 color illustrations.