{"title":"Joan Katz","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of publications, texts and ephemera connected to Joan Katz, one of the deliberately unstable identities circulating around Richard Prince’s practice. Prince has described Katz as a pseudonym or “fake name,” while his own website presents her as a Prague-based journalist, longtime acquaintance and collaborator — an ambiguity that appears entirely consistent with his interest in invented authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor The New Rare, Katz is interesting precisely because the attribution refuses to settle: writer, collaborator, persona, alias and narrative device become difficult to separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA name enters circulation. Authorship becomes less certain.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"richard-prince-black-bra-karma-new-york-2016","title":"RICHARD PRINCE \u0026 JOAN KATZ — Black Bra, Karma, New York, 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Prince, \u003cem\u003eBlack Bra\u003c\/em\u003e. Karma, New York, 2016. Edition of 200. Staple-bound, offset printed; 21.5 × 28 cm, 14 pages. Out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA slight, deliberately provisional publication assembled from text, photographs and the discarded visual language of magazines and publishing. Pages move between jokes, cultural references, photographic reproductions and images of studio material — including a battered package addressed to Richard Prince Studio through the TIME photo department, repeatedly stamped BLACK BRA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title has a further biographical resonance: Prince and writer Joan Katz were in a band called Black Bra around 1990, folding another minor strand of his life back into the circulation of the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrince’s practice has long operated through material already in circulation: advertisements, magazines, cartoons, photographs, jokes and other people’s images. \u003cem\u003eBlack Bra\u003c\/em\u003e reduces that method to the scale of a cheaply produced pamphlet. Rather than explaining the work, the publication behaves like it — material is selected, displaced, reproduced and returned to circulation under another name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor The New Rare, this is precisely where a small publication becomes more than supporting literature. Magazine image, mailing package, joke, studio residue and artist book occupy the same register. The document does not sit outside the practice; it is one of the places the practice happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Light handling, surface and edge wear consistent with an independently produced paper publication. See images for condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54207765184850,"sku":"PRINCE-KARMA-INV-2016","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Prince_Richard.BlackBra.2016.jpg?v=1786175441"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/joan-katz.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}