Richard Prince: Hippie Drawings

by Richard Brautigan, Richard Brautigan

There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors. Au contraire , the inventive shapes and joyful colors recall children's drawings or paintings by the mentally ill. Half-figures of indeterminate gender with staring eyes, big ears and frizzy hair smirk challengingly at the viewer, offering an inventory of possibilities, many of which later find their way into Prince's joke paintings of the same period. This extraordinary little book presents these funny yet sinister works to a larger public for the first time, and allows readers to discover a new side of Richard Prince's oeuvre.

104 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Richard Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Tacoma, Washington, he moved to San Francisco in the 1950s and began publishing poetry in 1957. He started writing novels in 1961 and is probably best known for his early work Trout Fishing in America. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1984.

Reviews

[Phoenix · Rating 5 out of 5]

the artist always known as richard prince gets all layers of all jokes
and how it's all on us
he's been way ahead
here are some magic marker magic markings

[Kristin Myrtle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hippies can't draw...