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Article: Richard Prince at Barbara Gladstone.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Richard Prince made his reputation as the master of the deadpan mode, teasing viewers with the promise that the essence of the American psyche might be discovered in cigarette advertisements, the back pages of cult magazines and the banalities of dirty jokes and cartoons. During the '80s he was the most iconoclastic of the media deconstructors, studiously suppressing any but the most cerebral pleasures in his presentation of rephotographed scraps of popular culture.
So what are we to make of Prince's gradual slide toward gestural abstraction, that most sensual and passionate form of artistic engagement? Recent works featured his trademark Playboy cartoons, their ...