本书以精美的视觉效果汇编了理查德·普林斯（Richard Prince）40年来将牛仔作为美国的象征所拍摄的照片。

本书展示了普林斯如何在过去四十年间创作的艺术作品中挖掘美国西部神话的。每一章都有一个简短的介绍，接着是普林斯创作的艺术作品，结尾用一个部分展示了相关的短时效物品、遗物和碎片，这些有助于结合背景来了解普林斯作品。普林斯再一次挑战了摄影的传统限制，他通过牛仔和西部的镜头，重新点燃了四十年前引发的辩论。

A visually stunning compilation of Richard Prince’s 40-year-long project of examining the cowboy as an American symbol.

In the mid-1970s, Richard Prince was an aspiring painter working in Time Inc.’s tear sheet department clipping texts for magazine writers. After he removed the articles, he was left with advertisements: glossy pictures of commodities, models, and other objects of desire. He began to re-

photograph the advertisements, cropping and enlarging them, and selling the artworks as his own. Prince paid particular attention to the motif of the cowboy, often depicted in advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes. He had an explosive effect on the art world, provoking lawsuits and setting auction records for contemporary photography. More recently, he has revisited copies of TIME from the 1980s and 90s using contemporary technology to produce a new series of work, extending his preoccupation with the cowboy in the era of Instagram to demonstrate that the stakes around originality, appropriation, and truth in advertising are as high as ever. This book showcases how Prince has mined the mythological American West within the artwork he produced during the last four decades. Each chapter contains a brief introduction, followed by artwork by Prince, and concludes with a section of related ephemera, relics, and fragments that aid in contextualizing Prince’s work. Once again challenging the conventional limits of photography, Prince is reigniting the debate he sparked forty years ago through the lens of cowboys and the West.