original illustration with intervention and paperback book, in artist's frame
Richard Prince appropriates and intervenes upon an original illustration, pairing it with a paperback book and presenting the ensemble within a frame of his own making. This work engages Prince's longstanding interest in questions of authorship, ownership, and the cultural life of images, blurring the boundaries between the found and the authored. The artist's frame itself becomes an active element of the piece, asserting Prince's claim over the assembled objects and implicating the entire presentation as a unified artistic statement.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 10, 2016
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Artists in conversation
Sherrie Levine
American · b. 1947
Levine directly shares Prince's appropriation based practice, rephotographing and reframing existing images and objects to challenge authorship and originality. Her work similarly interrogates who owns cultural images and what constitutes artistic intervention.
Mike Kelley
American · b. 1954
Kelley assembled found objects and popular cultural artifacts into framed and staged ensembles that implicate ownership, memory, and the uncanny life of discarded things. His mixed media constructions share Prince's interest in the cultural meaning embedded in everyday objects and printed matter.
John Baldessari
American · b. 1931
Baldessari combined found images, text, and printed materials through conceptual interventions that questioned authorship and the framing of meaning. His practice of repurposing existing visual material to produce new conceptual statements closely mirrors Prince's approach in this work.
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