Single Man Looking to the Right (Signed Artist's Statement with Announcement Card).
[New York: Artists Space], [1980]. Xerographic sheet (11 x 8.5 inches); SIGNED by Prince in black ink to lower corner. Artist's statement published to supplement Richard Prince's contribution to an Artists Space group show (Feb. 23 - Mar. 29, 1980), which also featured works from Jeff Balsmeyer, Silvia Kolbowski, Allan McCollum, and Jenny Snider. Prince's oblique text serves as a kind of psychoanalytic reading of an image—one of three photographs he'd exhibited the year prior, in a window installation at Three Lives and Company; reproduced as thumbnail image above the text. "Since the material of which he's made extends to the public domain, he exists on his own terms, with his own solutions... For him not to be is as it should be. If artefacts remain, he thinks of them as temporary proof providing the convenience of hindsight." A key specimen of Prince's early ficto-theoretical prose. Faint creasing to sheet from handling, but an otherwise sharp copy; near fine. Accompanied here by the related announcement card, fully illustrated to recto after a detail from Untitled (Two Women, Two Men, in Three-Quarter Profile), with Artists Space details printed to verso.
Item #32179
Price: $4,500.00