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Richard Prince — Good Nurse
Richard Prince

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,

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December 12, 2013

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Richard Prince, 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,
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodern Art, White And Neutral Tones, Offset Lithograph, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Collage, Contemporary Artist, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Series Format, Nurse Iconography, Figurative

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