Christophe Daviet-Thery, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié (Eds.). &: Christophe Daviet-Thery. VIAINDUSTRIAE publishing

Catalogue of the eponym’s exhibition at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Spoleto, 23 June – 26 August 2012 and at &: Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, 26 October – 20 December 2012

Edited by Christophe Daviet-Thery and Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié

Essays: “Do Androids Dream about Kindles” by Vincent Pécoil, “American/English” by Yann Sérandour

Bibliographical notes: Francine Delaigle

Design: Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié

This book is not a catalogue raisonné, it instead takes a look at the library of an amateur, an excuse to apprehend this aspect of Richard Prince’s work which encompasses books and the question of the collection and its incompleteness, revealed here by the ‘ghosts’ of the missing books.

Richard Prince is an avid collector of books, an obsessive one.

This fervor is visible in The Good Life or American/English, where he photographs covers of books from his collection, reducing the book to an image, a simple surface.