{"id":15895,"title":"The Catcher In The Rye","dimensions":"20.7 x 14.3 cm, 214 p., language : English, publisher : American Place, ISBN : N/A","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":5,"permalink":"the-catcher-in-the-rye","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/899/large/catcher_in_the_rye_richard_prince.jpg?1501325145","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c/em\u003e, recounts the days following a student\u0026#39;s expulsion from a private school. After a fight with his roommate, he leaves school two days early to explore 1950s New York before returning home, interacting with teachers, prostitutes, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his sister.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis work, one of Prince\u0026#39;s most risky appropriations, is a dead-ringer for the iconic novel of the same title, by J.D. Salinger. Not a word in the entire novel was changed, with the exception that the following disclaimer was added to the colophon page: \u0026ldquo;This is an artwork by Richard Prince. Any similarity to a book is coincidental and not intended by the artist.\u0026rdquo; And, as a cherry on the top, \u0026copy; Richard Prince.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrince took a bunch of copies of his pirated edition, spread them out on a blanket on sidewalk in front of Central Park, and sold them for $40 each. It\u0026#39;s unknown how many\u0026mdash;if any\u0026mdash;he sold or how a presumably befuddled public might have responded to this performance.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/richard-princes-latest-act-of-appropriation-the-catcher-in-the-rye\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1587,"name":"Richard Prince","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}