
Good Nurse
A provocative exploration of popular culture and appropriation, Richard Prince's *Good Nurse* presents a complete set of 19 collages combining offset lithography, hand-painting, and hand-cutting to reimagine the iconic nurse figure drawn from pulp romance novel covers. The works blur the boundaries between fine art and mass-market imagery, layering bold colors and gestural marks over appropriated source material to subvert and fetishize the cultural mythology surrounding femininity and caretaking. The inclusion of a starched white nurse cap selected by the artist extends the work beyond the picture plane, introducing a charged three-dimensional object that bridges representation and reality.
- Medium
- The complete set of 19 collages with offset lithograph in colours, hand-painting and hand-cutting, on wove paper, with full margins, including a starched white nurse cap selected by the artist,
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
December 12, 2013
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