Richard Prince came of age in New York in the late»70s, as part of a loosely knit group of artists, including Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and Jack Goldstein, who used photography to re-contextualize art and media images, challenging received
ideas about authorship and originality.
These works, Sotheby's six panel version is above, are particularly market friendly as they combine the artist's
ideas about authorship with a sturdy medium and the gold tone that has come to be associated with some of his most valued works.
Ideas about authorship and authenticity and influences from literature, psychology, pop culture and art history are filtered, distorted and often discarded as they find three - dimensional form.
Not exact matches
At most it means only a revision of
ideas concerning the way in which the composite
authorship came
about.
MICHELLE GRABNER: The
idea of
authorship is very interesting when I think
about Gaylen, that he creates this backdrop or platform for other artists.
Rail: So much
about the reaction against Neo-Expressionism is there's a whole constellation of things that we're trying to sort through, one of those is «
authorship,» and now everyone gets very uncomfortable at the
idea of art expressing the feeling of an artist.
David Grubbs speaks at length to the dearth of recorded material available from the 1960s avant - garde in his book Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014); and Conrad has spoken, in several places,
about his
ideas of
authorship and «composition,» arguing that the music made with the Theatre of Eternal Music was ideologically based on there being neither composer nor score.
Artist Olivier Mosset, along with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, was a member of the BMPT art collective in the 1960s, a Parisian group dedicated to interrogating
ideas about creative
authorship.
Such was the case with two fairly recent recruits: the figurative painter Alex Katz, 86, and the multimedia artist Elaine Sturtevant, 82, who since the»60s has explored
ideas about authenticity and
authorship in her groundbreaking reproductions of paintings by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and others.