The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, its applications were much more nuanced. For example, Wallace Berman's 1957 "Cross" assemblage features a close-up photograph of heterosexual penetration that affirms sex as a "factum fidei" ("true fact," as Berman's inscription went)--its explicitness serving simply as realism. This approach to "girlie magazine" imagery and its polar opposite--the impulse to decommodify sexuality--can both be found in the photographs, paintings and books of Richard Prince, an artist whose fondness for the era of Berman is well known. She traces these overlaps and sympathies with reproductions of previously unseen works by Berman and new images from Prince's Girlfriends and de Kooning series. Also including an interview with Prince, She is edited by Kristine McKenna, whose ongoing work on Wallace Berman and his contemporaries continues to yield exciting discoveries.
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Mix Richard Prince's collages of sexy women with Wallace Berman's photos of sexy women and you get this must-have Prince catalog. The format is more horizontal than square like shown on amazon and it's filled with artwork (which I like).
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Beautiful catalog with the first half devoted to Berman's 'screen printed-like' images and photos or women, and the second half with new Prince collages of his women. An entertaining collection and a nice book design. Even if you just want the Richard Prince material there is plenty and you won't find it elsewhere so highly recommended.
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