Untitled

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Untitled

1991

Richard Prince (American, born 1949)

On this canvas, jokes, advertising images, cartoons, and photographs coexist as decontextualized fragments. Through the artistic process of appropriation, clichés of everyday speech and popular culture stop relating to their original context and are held up to the scrutiny of the artist’s devices. Richard Prince juxtaposes these elements with domestic interiors that he has rotated on their axes and silkscreened onto the surface of the painting to appear as if clipped from a newspaper, furthering the work’s disjointed view of the familiar.

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Object Details

Title:

Untitled

Date:

1991

Artist:

Richard Prince (American, born 1949)

Medium:

Acrylic, silkscreen, and graphite on canvas

Dimensions:

8 feet 3 1/2 inches × 9 feet 8 inches (252.7 × 294.6 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with matching funds from various donors, and with funds from the Adele Haas Turner and Beatrice Pastorius Turner Memorial Fund, 1991

Accession Number:

1991-51-1

Geography:

Made in North and Central America

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