
Joke
A handwritten or printed joke is presented as the sole subject of the work, reducing language and humor to their most stripped-down visual form. Prince appropriates the familiar cultural currency of stand-up comedy, recontextualizing it as fine art and provoking questions about authorship, originality, and value. The work challenges the boundaries between high art and mass culture, a hallmark of Prince's broader practice of repurposing existing imagery and text.
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
March 8, 2013
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