Richard Prince

Richard Prince (b. 1949) is one of the United States' best known and most popular artists, helping to define the 'postmodern' generation along with Cindy Sherman and others. Emerging in the 1980s, Richard Prince combined the media of painting, artist's books and photography to offer peculiar views into the margins of American culture. Prince's appropriated and re-presented 'pop' images range from one-line jokes in the style of 1960s cartoons, Marlboro cowboy advertising campaigns, and motorcycle magazines. Recently Prince's work has taken a turn to painting, yet he remains as original and inspiring as ever. Part of Phaidon's Contemporary Artists series, Richard Prince is the first major survey of his work since his 1992 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.