Richard Prince: Upstate, Uptown

A survey of Prince with his most iconic works alongside rare, never-before-seen pieces from his groundbreaking career.

This is a major volume on the influential American artist Richard Prince, tracing more than four decades of his pioneering practice—from his early experiments in the late 1970s to some of his most recent works. Widely regarded as one of the most provocative figures in contemporary art, Prince has continually challenged ideas of authorship, originality, and cultural ownership, redefining how images circulate and acquire meaning in modern visual culture.

The book accompanies a landmark exhibition at Museo Jumex, the first major survey of the artist’s work presented in Latin America. The exhibition title echoes a joke Prince has returned to throughout his career—originally attributed to Milton Berle: “I went to my psychiatrist. He said, ‘Tell me everything.’ Now he’s doing my act.” Like the joke itself, Prince’s work operates through repetition, appropriation, and reinvention.

The volume explores two foundational threads in Prince’s practice: his pioneering “rephotography” of appropriated advertising imagery and his works based on jokes and cartoons. These themes unfold through in-depth presentations of his celebrated Cowboys and Jokes series, revealing how Prince has reshaped the visual language of popular culture for more than forty years. Alongside these bodies of work, the publication examines other key series that probe fiction, masculinity, and the mythology of American identity.

Details

• Author: Eugenio Lopez Alonso, president of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo. Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator at Museo Jumex in Mexico City.
• Hardcover: 240 pages | 200 colour illustrations
• Date published: October 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780847877577
• Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.5cm