Canal Zone [2008 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - STILL SEALED IN ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP] by Prince, Richard - 2008

Gagosian, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As new. STL. Gagosian Gallery, New York 2008. Hardcover in pictorial boards. 91 pages profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Graphic Thought Process. Published in conjunction with a 2008 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition, this elegant hardbound catalogue featuring a textual contribution by James Frey reproduced the first showing of Richard Prince's "Canal Zone" body of work. A significant Prince publication that was subsequently withdrawn from publication due to legal issues. BOOK CONDITION Fine/As New (sealed in the publisher's original shrink wrap). Following his burlesque dialogues with the art of De Kooning, Picasso, and Naughty Nurse pulp fiction, Prince has turned to his own biographical roots for inspiration. The Panama Canal Zone, where he was born, was, until 1979, a political exclave of the U.S., part-colonial company enclave and part-socialist government, purportedly dominated by virulent separatist racism. In his characteristic manner, Prince has transformed the former reality of his birthplace into a fictive space: providing an anarchic tropical scenario in which extreme emanations of the (white American male) id, fleshy female pin-ups, Rastafarians with massive dreadlocks, electric guitars, and virile black bodies run riot".