John Dogg

John Dogg was the shared alias of Richard Prince and Colin de Land, deployed as a collaborative authorial fiction during the late 1980s New York art scene. Operating through the format of the artist — with exhibitions, contributions, and a sustained presence in critical publications — John Dogg inserted the question of authorship directly into the field of exchange. The alias appeared most prominently in New Observations No. 51 (Radical Consumption and the New Poverty, 1987), where contribution and citation became indistinguishable from the work itself.

  • New Observations Nos. 50, 51, and 84 — group of three issues shown together. New York, 1987 and c. early 1990s. Offset printed magazines, approx. 27 × 21 cm each. Sold as a group. `New Observations No. 84, Alchemy — interior spread. Black and white photograph of Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés, 1946–66: a reclining female figure amid twigs and branches, one arm raised holding a gas lamp, viewed through a torn aperture in a dark ground.

    New Observations — Nos. 50, 51 & 84

    New Observations — Nos. 50, 51 & 84

  • Richard Prince, Menthol Wars, front cover. Printed Matter, New York, 2009. Facsimile reprint of 1980 artist's book. Black cover with halftone photograph of a woman in profile, pearl earring visible. Title 'MENTHOL WARS' and 'Richard Prince' in white type. Richard Prince, Menthol Wars, plain black inside back cover. Printed Matter, New York, 2009. Solid black page, no text or image.

    Richard Prince — Menthol Wars

    Richard Prince — Menthol Wars