Deluxe hardcover first edition of "The Second Deposition of Richard Prince," a transcription of Richard Prince's deposition in a copyright infringement case brought by two photographers, Donald Graham and Eric McNatt. Includes images to accompany the deposition text as well as an index. The Deluxe edition includes handwritten elements on a signed dust jacket, tipped-in stickers, and a unique artwork by Greg Allen.

"Prince links key aspects of the New Portraits—screenshotting, commenting, the placelessness of a phone-based practice, and experiments with ink-jetting—to other major bodies of his work before and since. He discusses his engagement with his artistic influences and his evolving appropriation strategies. And he repeatedly refuses the temptation to shoehorn his artworks into the definitional constraints of the copyright litigation system. Like the first interview from the lawsuit over his Canal Zone paintings—which he also discusses—Prince approached this second deposition as a forum to make the case for his artwork on his terms. [With a tense chorus of at least seven lawyers chiming in along the way.]... The Second Deposition of Richard Prince (2023), is both an art historical reference and an art object. It is released first as a 166-page, limited edition hardcover, printed in full color, in a signed, stamped, and numbered edition of 100, plus 10 artist proofs (I-X). The dust jacket is a digital lithograph printed on archival stock, finished and signed by hand, and completed with additional collage elements. The double frontispiece is tipped in by hand. Each copy of the limited edition includes a unique work, executed either in acrylic or India ink, on BFK Rives. It is at once janky and slick and corny and sick, and a nod to an artist who—as he testified here—places books at the center of his practice." -- publisher's statement.