Untitled (Cowboy).
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Title |
Untitled (Cowboy). |
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Creator |
Prince, Richard (American painter, photographer, and mixed media artist, born 1949) |
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Date |
1980-1984 or 1991-1992? |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary
Postmodern |
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Subject |
Advertisements
Advertising
Men
Cowboys
Cowboy hats
Hats
Shirts
Coats
Chaps
Horseback riding
Roping
Animals
Horses
Saddles |
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Description |
"Prince's early 'appropriations' from advertising, of which this is an example, have interesting connections with his later practice. After 1985 Prince started to employ verbal jokes in his works. They were often silkscreened as texts across the centers of large, single-color canvases alluding to Modernist abstractions. The character of the jokes, which usually reflected 1950s, middle American, 'blue-collar' values, often had an undercurrent of malevolence. Many of them dealt with infidelity. From the evidence of his earlier appropriations, Prince himself was a fugitive, teasingly 'untrustworthy' artist." (Caption, p.212); "Another artist concerned with appropriating imagery was Richard Prince. In 're-presenting' images of cowboys extrapolated from advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes, he effaced his authorial presence while obliquely preserving an ironically macho identification between himself, as artist, and the romantic outsider-figures of the cowboys." (Excerpt, p.212) |
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Material |
Ektacolor print |
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Measurements |
121.9 x 182.9 cm |
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Technique |
Photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques |
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Work Type |
Photographs |
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Repository |
Barbara Gladstone Gallery (New York, New York) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.212, fig.108) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. (RP502) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-42.jpg |
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