Bettie Kline

Richard Prince

BOO 2493 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Very Good / Exterior shows minor shelf wear and a small crease at the rear bottom left corner.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

2012

EDITION LANGUAGE
First thus

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Purple Institute
19 x 15 x 0.5 cm
CONDITION
Very Good / Exterior shows minor shelf wear and a small crease at the rear bottom left corner.

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2012

EDITION
First thus

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Purple Institute

DIMENSIONS
19 x 15 x 0.5 cm

ABOUT

Richard Prince's artist's book starts with the premise that painter Franz Kline and Irving and Paula Klaw both pursued their "artistic practice" at the same Manhattan address during the fifties; perhaps sharing models, one of which was Bettie Page. Prince juxtaposes appropriated images of Bettie Page alongside those of Kline and his works to set up a frisson between the pin-up legend's limbs/torso and the pioneering Abstract Expressionist's bold calligraphic brushstrokes.

 

This is the pocket version that was published in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Purple Magazine.