The Magic Castle
Published by les presses du réel, Dijon, 2013, 48 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17.4 × 21.8h cm, English / French
Price: €24
Produced on the occasion of Richard Prince’s exhibition The Magic Castle 1968–1969 at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2011, based on a series of photographs taken when he was student in France. With a text by Richard Prince.
American artist Richard Prince recycles found materials from American popular culture, most often images from advertisement and magazine photography which he re-photographs, silkscreens, overpaints, frames, enlarges, or arranges in collages, playing with their somehow empty meaning.