Kenny Schachter

The Larry Joke

2018

Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #3: Canada Dry, Foil-Stamped Print, 2011 Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded. As new condition, never f...

Richard Prince, The Greeting Card Jokes #2: The Best Friend, 2011 Foil-stamped print, on heavy wove paper, folded. As new condition, never framed or displayed. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. Private collection (UK). From a limited edition of 100. Edition 91/100 6.25 x 8.5 in (15.9 x 21.6 cm) Notes: Text image from Richard Prince's iconic Jokes series. Signed and numbered by the artist in ink on interior of card. Incorporating jokes reflective of the “borscht belt” humor prevalent in the 1950's, Prince's Joke works tap into social preoccupations of the national subconscious. Prior to Prince's use of the jokes, many had infiltrated popular culture, gradually losing their original authors to become adopted by a largely oral tradition. Beginning in 1984, Richard Prince began assembling one-line gag cartoons and ‘borscht belt’ jokes from the 1950's which he redrew onto small pieces of paper. "Artists were casting sculptures in bronze, making huge paintings, talking about prices and clothes and cars and spending vast amounts of money. So I wrote jokes on little pieces of paper and sold them for $10 each". Following the hand-written jokes and subsequent works in which cartoon images were silk-screened onto canvas, in 1987 Prince adopted a more radical, formulaic strategy of mechanically reproducing classic one liners and gags onto a flat monochrome canvas. Richard Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making — one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man...

Vipers Tongue By Billy Childish Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and poet known for his prolific work across various mediums, including painting, punk rock music, and...

By David Hockney These lithographs are taken from the special edition of Hockney's Alphabet, which is signed on the justification page by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. A copy o...

A photograph done about the classic watches of Mickey Mouse, it shows the natural aging of the watch and the mouse. There is the possibility of a custom made diptych, with particular...

London Phone Box By Michael Wallner [2018] limited_edition reclaimed wood, steel Edition number 20 Image size: H:135 cm x W:72 cm Complete Size of Unframed ...

Color digital print on 170gsm gloss paper. Signed in pencil, verso. Published by House of Voltaire, London, to benefit Young People Matter, Crisis this Christmas and Studio Voltaire.

JJ Adams 2015 collection, "The X-Ray Illuminated Light Box Series" was an illuminated light-box (original) followed by a limited edition digital print release...