Richard Prince - Spiritual America

Publisher: Aperture / New York Institute of Modern Art
Year: 1989
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Pages: 138
Size: 28.6 x 19.5 cm

Very rare first 1989 edition of one of Richard Prince’s best and most influential books. Spiritual America is a catalogue cum artist's book published by Aperture in conjunction with the artist’s landmark 1989 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain, and Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Lavishly illustrated and stylishly designed closely with Prince by Bethany Johns, Spiritual America “retains a dual role as a retrospective survey of Prince’s work and a fascinating re-integration of his repertoire of images into the format from which they mostly originated - the magazine”(—Greg Hilty, Frieze Magazine). With over 200 colour images of Prince's work (the jokes, the bikers, the cowboys, the glamour girls, the hoods...), Spiritual America marked the first comprehensive publication on the artist and his work, featuring Prince's own texts as well as an incredible transcribed "interview" with author J.G. Ballard, and a preface by Corinne Diserens and Vincent Todoli.