Menthol Trilogy (War Pictures / Menthol Pictures / Menthol Wars).
New York and Buffalo: Artists Space / CEPA Gallery / Printed Matter, 1980. First Editions. Slim octavos. Three experimental narrative works from Richard Prince, in which he explored themes of shifting subjectivity and technological mediation; a trajectory that would eventually culminate in his 1983 publication Why I Go to the Movies Alone. Published on three separate occasions: (1) War Pictures for an exhibition at Artists Space (New York), in February 1980; (2) Menthol Pictures at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, where he would meet Larry Clark during their mutual residencies; and (3) Menthol Wars for a window installation at Printed Matter (7 Lispenard St.). The appropriated images that formed the trilogy's illustrated wrappers would themselves become material for a later photographic edition (first exhibited at Metro Pictures in 1991). This set in overall near fine condition, with typical thumbing to side-stapled wrappers and faint discoloration to endpapers of Menthol Wars. A scarce set.
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Price: $9,500.00