RICHARD PRINCE / Cowboy

Richard Prince
Cowboy 2020
Softcover, 484 pages
38 x 29cm
Fulton Ryder / Delmonico Books / Prestel

Condition: New (In shrink wrap)

Now out of print and increasingly difficult to source, Cowboy is an essential addition for collectors, photography enthusiasts, and those drawn to Prince’s boundary-pushing explorations of media, identity, and visual culture.

This large-format, first edition volume revisits one of Prince’s most iconic and enduring subjects—the American cowboy—through his celebrated series of rephotographed Marlboro advertisements, a body of work that redefined the language of contemporary appropriation art.

Spanning decades of Prince’s engagement with this mythic symbol of rugged masculinity and American identity, Cowboy presents a sweeping overview of the series. Rich, full-page colour plates are paired with thoughtful contextual essays that explore the work’s cultural significance. Prince strips the cowboy of its glossy, commercial context and reimagines him as a ghostly, media-constructed figure, shaped by fantasy, nostalgia, and illusion.

Lavishly produced and thoughtfully edited, this volume functions as both a collector’s object and a critical document of Prince’s career. It includes essays that delve into the cultural implications of the Cowboy series and Prince’s lasting influence on conceptual photography and postmodern art.