Artist field note

Richard Prince

Who owns an image?

Untitled (Cowboy) by Richard Prince
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Untitled (Cowboy)

1989

An advertising cowboy is rephotographed and detached from the cigarette campaign that made him. American myth becomes found material.

The five in one idea

Prince made appropriation impossible to discuss without also discussing power, ownership and context.