Paths Towards Modernity V

1. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
2. Richard Prince Untitled (Man's Hand On Pocket With Watch), 1980
3. Richard Prince Cowboys & Girlfriends, 1992
4. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
5. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
6. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy), 2001
7. Richard Prince Untitled (Original), 2009
8. Richard Prince Untitled, 2008
9. Versace 1980s
10. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
11. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
12. Richard Prince Nurse With Wings (Detail), 2003
13. Versace Fall/Winter 2013
14. Versace Fall/Winter 1994
15. Richard Prince Untitled, 2007

Richard Prince created the art practice of 'appropriation'. Regarded as one of the main players/actors of The Picture Generation he took pictures of pictures and declared them artworks of their own. With motorbike cowboys and vinyl nurses as subject, Prince plays with stereotypes and superstages them as cult of popular mainstream culture. And when cliché and sexism collide, Gianni and Donatella are not afar.
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Doublet (Comp.)

Peter de Potter I Am An Image Machine, 2011

The ditptych corporation and tumblr über-curator Petter de Potter pairs sexuality with violence and porn with propaganda. Machine versus image. Spit versus shipwrecks. Appropriation to be appreciated - or at least, endlessly consumed.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture X

1. Unknown
2. Andy Warhol Tongue In Ear, 1980
3. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
4. Barazoku Magazine 1971 - 2004
5. Gengoroh Tagame Gunji, 2005
6. Sadao Hasegawa Paradise Vision, 1996

Sex and comic strips or 'Outline Porn'. What begun with the introvert drawings of a young Jean Cocteau, a homoerotic dreamscape, has found its culmination in Hard Yaoi. In that sense, Warhol's idea of repeatability has turned into hardcore mass-comsumption.
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