Richard Prince, Adult Comedy Action Drama. New York: Scalo, 1995. Hardcover in dust jacket, 239 pp. 29,5 x20,2 cm.
Simply the epitome of cool, and a must-have for any serious collector of contemporary artist's books. Together with Wolfgang Tilmans' eponymous 1995 debut and Jürgen Teller's first book published by Taschen in 1996, Adult Comedy Action Drama is a landmark book for photographic and artistic practices of the 1990s.
Originating in (re)appropriation, simulation, and reframing practices, Adult Comedy Action Drama is (un)canny, funny, erotic, clever, and witty, setting the standard for postmodernist book production. Harold Bloom would have called this type of book 'the dark precursor' of any book that appropriates, frames and re-contextualizes existing images. Framing the framed frame in a deeply ironic gesture.
A superbly curated selection of photographed biker girls, cowboys, muscle cars, photos, cartoons, studio shots, jokes, books, drawings and much more.
Top of spine slightly dented. Upper border of DJ slightly sunned. A clean, tight body. No markings or writing. Overall a very good copy in a very good dj.