Arthur Jafa & Richard Prince: Helter Skelter

This volume creates a dialogue between the two artists, which unfolds through a series of thematic juxtapositions –  combinations of works by both artists that illuminate each of their practices and tease out shared subject matter and mutual obsessions. Born a decade apart, American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince share an ethos of lawlessness when it comes to the manipulation of images siphoned from movies, comic books, album covers, and first-edition Beat volumes.Both artists chart peculiar topographies specific to the US: Jafa’s reflecting his identity as an African American man coupled with a mission to invigorate Black cinema and art; Prince’s hovering between a self-conscious critique of white masculinity and a fascination with the underbelly of the American psyche.
ISBN 9788887029963. Fondazione Prada. pb. 436 pages. 22.8 x 17.2 cm.
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