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general interest 5 guggenheim museum richard prince text by nancy spector glenn o brien jack bankowsky for 30 years now the american artist richard prince has been considered one of the most forward-thinking and innovative artists in the world in 1977 his deceptively simple act of rephotographing advertising images from the new york times magazine and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new critical approach to making art one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object prince s technique involves appropriation and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially american sensibility with images stemming from the marlboro man muscle cars biker chicks off-color jokes gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels among many other sources organized by the solomon r guggenheim museum new york this major traveling retrospective brings together prince s photographs paintings sculptures and works on paper in the most comprehensive examination of his work to date while previous examinations of prince s work have emphasized its catalytic role in postmodernist criticism this volume also focuses on the work s iconography and how it registers prevalent themes in our social landscape including a fascination with rebellion an obsession with fame and a preoccupation with the tawdry and the illicit highlighting key examples from the all the major series of prince s oeuvre this fully illustrated volume also debuts works created specifically for the exhibition it features a critical overview by the guggenheim museum s nancy spector and an essay by artforum editor-at-large jack bankowsky which discusses prince s environmental installations including the spiritual america gallery his first house and second house and his library in upstate new york in addition cultural commentator glenn o brien contributes a series of interviews with popular culture initiators like annie proulx phyllis diller john waters michael ovitz kim gordon and robert mankoff among many others providing a composite portrait of prince s themes alongside an insider s view of the formation of mass cultural taste richard prince 0-89207-363-2 978-0-89207-363-4 hardcover 8 x 11 in 368 pgs 438 color u.s $60.00 cdn $72.00 october/art d.a.p violette editions sophie calle double game with the participation of paul auster the original edition of double game published by violette editions in 1999 was the first important book by sophie calle to be published in english and earned fervent international praise for its concept content and stunning design writing for bookforum barry schwabsky called this elegant ribbon-wrapped compendium my vote for the most beautiful art book of 1999 and eye magazine judged it that rare thing an artist s monograph that is actually a work of art in and of itself a furthering of calle s vision that edition quickly sold out and has since been out of print this new edition published to coincide with the 2007 venice biennale at which calle will represent france is identical in content to the first and reprises all of the cherished qualities of the original in a smaller hardback format including the signature ribbon around its middle the story begins with maria the fictional character in paul auster s novel leviathan most of maria s works are in fact based on those of sophie calle the first section of double game takes us through the few original works by maria that sophie makes her own shown both in their fictional context and illustrated by calle s actual reproduction of them the second section takes the story further into the heart of calle s world with a series of calle s seminal narrative and abstract works in text and images that were appropriated by maria in leviathan the third section of the book takes the dialogue directly to maria s inventor paul auster who in turn takes calle as his subject inventing for her the gotham handbook which offers personal instructions for sc on how to improve life in new york city because she asked sophie calle double game 1-933045-69-8 978-1-933045-69-6 hardcover 5.5 x 7.5 in 296 pgs 85 color 373 b&w u.s $39.95 cdn $48.00 september/art exhibition schedule new york solomon r guggenheim museum 09/28/07­01/08 minneapolis walker art center 03/08­06/08 london serpentine gallery 07/08­10/08 the most comprehensive examination of the celebrated american artist s work to date published on the occasion of the artist s major traveling exhibition it highlights prince s contributions to the development of contemporary art bringing together key examples of his photographs paintings sculptures and works on paper from all of the various series comprising his oeuvre.

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