Richard Prince: Spiritual America #4 Exhibition Poster
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Richard Prince: Spiritual America #4 Exhibition Poster. It was first exhibited in 1983, in a small New York gallery.The exhibition consisted only of this piece, a re-photograph of Garry Gross's controversial 1975 nude photo of a very young Brooke Shields, which had been commissioned by the actress's mother as a publicity image and published in. Spiritual America is one of Prince's most controversial and talked-about appropriation works. It was first exhibited in 1983, in a small New York gallery.The exhibition consisted only of this piece, a re-photograph of Garry Gross's controversial 1975 nude photo of a very young Brooke Shields, which had been commissioned by the actress's mother as a publicity image and published in Sugar 'n' Spice magazine . Prince only became aware of the photograph's existence in 1983, when it was the subject of a highly publicized lawsuit brought by Shields to copyright Gross's photo. Prince took the name of this work, Spiritual America , from a 1923 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, which depicted a gelding as a symbol of a country in moral decline. This title doesn't invite the viewer to see the girl as a subject, but rather problematizes the context, history, and "values" underlying the photo's origin, which, in the artist's view, were symptomatic of the growing insensitivity in American society. Moving away from its original function as a publicity photograph, Spiritual America presents itself as a critical social analysis of the image itself and the fascination with fame and celebrity. Prince draws attention to the way society represents and sexualizes children's bodies in the media, art, and popular culture. Poster reproducing the photograph by Richard Prince taken in 2005
