{"product_id":"richard-prince-purple-20-years-the-richard-prince-purple-book-2012","title":"Richard Prince — Purple 20 Years: The Richard Prince Purple Book","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurple Institute, Paris, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial edition produced for \u003cem\u003ePurple Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e no. 18\u003cbr\u003ePublished for the 20th anniversary of Purple magazine\u003cbr\u003e78 pp.\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003ePictorial paper wrappers\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 28 × 20.5 cm \/ 11 × 8 in.\u003cbr\u003eColour and black-and-white reproductions throughout\u003cbr\u003eText and image work by Richard Prince\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near fine. Negligible bumping to front wrapper. Light handling wear only. Clean internally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial edition made by Richard Prince for \u003cem\u003ePurple Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e no. 18, marking twenty years of Purple magazine. The publication brings together fragments of Prince's “Bird Talk” texts with collages made from celebrity headshots, film stills, promotional photographs, album material, and other collected image debris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fashion magazine supplement as artist book.\u003cbr\u003eA Richard Prince object routed through Purple.\u003cbr\u003eCelebrity material, handwritten captions, rhetorical questions, commercial images, and borrowed surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book sits close to Prince’s long use of existing cultural material: publicity photographs, entertainment residue, fan-image circulation, soft celebrity, advertising language, and the unstable line between collecting and authorship. The source image remains visible. The gesture is in the re-captioning, grouping, and return to circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, Purple is not only publisher but frame. Fashion magazine, artist book, anniversary object, and promotional support occupy the same printed form. Prince’s image-world is placed inside another image-world, then released as a magazine-adjacent edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA secondary object made from secondary images.\u003cbr\u003eThe found photograph becomes layout.\u003cbr\u003eThe caption becomes authorship.\u003cbr\u003eThe magazine becomes support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Purple Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53390010220882,"sku":"RP-P20-PUR-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Prince_-Richard.-purple-20-years-the-richard-prince-purple-book.-2012--cover.jpg?v=1778489164","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/richard-prince-purple-20-years-the-richard-prince-purple-book-2012","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}