{"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\/products\/richard-prince-menthol-wars-printed-matter-2009","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}