{"title":"Appropriation Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublications, catalogues, and printed matter connected to appropriation art — work that takes existing images, objects, texts, and systems as its primary material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe objects here document a practice that has moved through multiple legal, institutional, and critical frames: from Pictures Generation strategies of the late 1970s and 1980s, through the contested territories of copyright, authorship, and originality that appropriation continues to occupy. Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, Mike Bidlo, and their adjacencies appear here as artists whose relationship to the found image has generated both significant work and significant dispute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatalogue as evidence. Publication as secondary site. The printed record of appropriation is itself a form of redistribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse the collection at The New Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"richard-prince-new-portraits-gagosian-gallery-2014","title":"Richard Prince — New Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, 2014","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"805\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"607\"\u003eRichard Prince\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"610\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"627\"\u003eNew Portraits\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"630\"\u003eGagosian Gallery, New York, 2014\u003cbr data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"665\"\u003e72-page exhibition booklet \/ catalogue\u003cbr data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"706\"\u003eEdition of 500\u003cbr data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"723\"\u003e6 × 8 inches\u003cbr data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"738\"\u003eStaple-bound booklet, offset printed\u003cbr data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"777\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"805\"\u003e£295 — shipping included\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"981\"\u003eOriginal booklet issued for Richard Prince’s \u003cem data-start=\"852\" data-end=\"867\"\u003eNew Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e, the 2014 exhibition of Instagram-sourced images enlarged as inkjet-on-canvas works with Prince’s added comments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"1203\"\u003eThe booklet repeats the structure of the feed: handle, image, likes, caption, comment. A social image is moved into the gallery, then returned to paper as catalogue. The object records this transfer without resolving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1490\"\u003eThe series remains tied to questions of authorship, permission, display, celebrity, and legal afterlife. Donald Graham’s \u003cem data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1355\"\u003eRastafarian Smoking a Joint\u003c\/em\u003e, reproduced through the \u003cem data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1395\"\u003eNew Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e project, later became part of the litigation around Prince’s use of Instagram-sourced imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1645\"\u003eCondition: very good, with a noticeable bump\/crease to the top right corner, visible on the cover and some pages. Light handling wear consistent with storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1741\"\u003eImage, caption, comment, claim.\u003cbr data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1681\"\u003eThe feed becomes exhibition.\u003cbr data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1712\"\u003eThe exhibition becomes paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53317011636562,"sku":"RP-NP-GAG-2014","price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Prince_-Richard.-New-Portraits_-2014-1-cover.jpg?v=1777493215"},{"product_id":"richard-prince-menthol-wars-printed-matter-2009","title":"Richard Prince — Menthol Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted Matter, New York, 2009\u003cbr\u003eFacsimile reprint of the 1980 artist’s book\u003cbr\u003eStaple-bound wrappers\u003cbr\u003e22 pp.\u003cbr\u003e14.1 × 21.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white offset printing\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 2,000\u003cbr\u003eUnsigned facsimile reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling and minor surface wear to wrappers, faint rubbing to black cover, clean interior, staples intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in October 1980 to coincide with a Richard Prince window installation at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.printedmatter.org\"\u003ePrinted Matter\u003c\/a\u003e’s original 7 Lispenard Street location, \u003cem\u003eMenthol Wars\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Prince’s early sequence of narrative artist books, alongside \u003cem\u003eWar Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMenthol Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e. Printed Matter reissued this facsimile in 2009 for \u003cem\u003eRichard Prince: Calling All Readers\u003c\/em\u003e, curated by John McWhinnie at the New York Art Book Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book sits before the more stabilised image of Prince as the artist of cowboys, jokes, nurses, and rephotographed American desire. Here the material is thinner and stranger: short texts, names, overheard voices, social drift, cigarettes, style, movies, records, and conversational fragments. The book form functions less as catalogue than as distribution system — a cheap printed support for fiction, pose, and borrowed atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a facsimile, the 2009 edition is also a second object: not the scarce 1980 original, but its controlled return through Printed Matter. A re-entry of early Prince into the artist-book market, produced through the same institution that first held the window installation. The copy becomes a readable substitute, a later administrative version of an early downtown object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period content, later institutional reprint.\u003cbr\u003eA minor book object from Prince’s pre-market vocabulary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price. Ships flat \/ protected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53401122242898,"sku":"RP-MW-PM-2009","price":385.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Prince_-Richard-.-MENTHOL-WARS.-2009-1-front-cover_cc6fe57d-23b4-4f37-b4e8-558b3c420b4c.jpg?v=1778554046"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/appropriation-art.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}