Publisher Note
Artist’s book by appropriation artist Richard Prince and art dealer Colin de Land, inspired by Bob Crane, the star of the 1960s television show "Hogan's Heroes," a sitcom about life in a Nazi POW camp. In 1978 Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, AZ, apartment, a crime which remains unsolved. John Henry Carpenter, his longtime friend who often filmed their joint sexual escapades, was suspected of the murder but was acquitted in a 1994 trial due to lack of evidence, famously depicted in Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus (2002). Published under Prince’s frequent pseudonym "John Dogg," the book follows the format of The Night I Lost My Baby: A Las Vegas Vignette (1966) by Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha, and Patrick Blackwell, and features stills purportedly of Crane and Carpenter’s porn videos. John Dogg was created when de Land invited Prince to exhibit at his gallery (Vox Populi/American Fine Arts, Co.). Prince agreed on the condition he use an alias, and de Land provided the name. Illustrated in black-and-white. One of 500 unnumbered copies.
Bob Crane.Com. A Book by John Dogg
by Dogg, John [pseud. of Richard Prince] and Colin de Land
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| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 2012 |
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| Printrun | 500 |