Richard Prince — The Douglas Blair Turnbaugh Collection (1977–1988)

Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, 2016

Exhibition catalogue
22.6 × 15.1 cm
48 pp.
Offset-printed pictorial wrappers
Black-and-white illustrations
Edition of 1,000

Condition: Good vintage / used condition. Light handling wear, soft rubbing and minor surface marking to wrappers. Interior clean overall, binding intact.

Published on the occasion of Richard Prince: The Douglas Blair Turnbaugh Collection (1977–1988) at Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, 11 June–30 July 2016. The catalogue documents material from the private archive of Douglas Blair Turnbaugh, an early friend, collector, and supporter of Prince. The exhibition gathered artworks, letters, exhibition announcements, publications, postcards, photographs, altered ephemera, and related objects from the artist's formative years.

A catalogue of secondary material around an artist whose work depends on secondary material. Prince's practice is built through existing images, jokes, advertisements, printed matter, cultural debris, and shifts of authorship. Here the surrounding paper becomes the subject: the letter, the invitation, the checklist, the matchbook, the jacket, the early publication.

The book records the period in which Prince's work moved through Artists Space, Metro Pictures, the Pictures Generation, SoHo, East Village networks, and early European exhibition circulation. It is not a retrospective of finished works so much as an inventory of formation.

An artist's career, seen through retained paper.

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