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by Richard Prince, Larry Clark

America's preeminent conceptual artist follows up fast on the heels of his spectacularly nuanced and blatantly jokey takes on pop culture as we know the Marlboro Man in Spiritual America, biker chicks in Girlfriends, and the artist's own sanctum sanctorum in Adult Comedy Action Drama. Now, in perhaps his most accessible artist's book to date (included is an interview with the artist by renowned cult photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark), Prince surveys his life's work, and packs it all into a populist vehicle typifying the steam and virility of late 20th-century American culture-a Prince specialty.

104 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

Reviews

[Tony · Rating 4 out of 5]

What first appears as pictures of the mundane are later, upon scrutiny, reveal an intense preoccupation with a subject matter that others might proclaim lack a visual attractiveness. A variety of old car and cigarette ads, rednecks, topless biker girls, stains, shopping lists, puzzling jokes, and boring scenes from an everyday rural life. Good essays at the end of the book explaining Prince's attempts to question art, photography and the structure of we consider art.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Topless redneck women and art.