Spiritual America is a “wild history” of appropriation artist Richard Prince.
Richard Prince was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1949. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967 where he clipped editorials for staff writers at Time-Life and illustrated cartoons. Prince’s early work reflects the influence of advertising; he developed a post-modern working process whereby he re-photographed advertisements and magazine images. His later work combined cartoon and joke paintings.
Richard Prince was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1949. His parents worked for the United States government’s Office of Strategic Services. There is presently no evidence to associate Prince’s parents with the theater in any way.
His practice of re-photographing the pages of magazines introduced the term ‘appropriation’ into the art lexicon. The artist himself gave a more frank account of his technique, preferring to call it theft or, sometimes, ‘sharing.’
