Sentences with phrase «re-photograph magazine ads»
In the early eighties, Richard Prince started to re-photograph magazine ads featuring the Marlboro Man; since then, he's given biker chicks, Borscht Belt jokes, celebrity autographs, and pulp - fiction nurses the legitimizing stamp of «appropriation art.»
http://nymag.com/ Not exact matches
Prince first attracted attention in the early 1980s with images re-photographed from magazine ads, through which he defined for himself the concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura.
It's a brilliant example of the illustrated joke paintings that astonished the art world when they were first exhibited and marked the artist's triumphant return to painting after devoting himself solely to magazine ads that he re-photographed in the 1980's.