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Ed Ruscha
13 Artist's Books
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- $7,000 - 9,000
$9,525
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13 artist's books, five with original glassine dust jackets.
1962-1978
Varying sizes from 4 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (11.4 x 9.2 cm) to 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Each signed in ink or pencil on the title page, all from the first, second, third or fourth editions of varying sizes, ten published by the artist, two published by Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood, and one published by The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Various original bindings.
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Ed Ruscha
American | 1937Quintessentially American, Ed Ruscha is an L.A.-based artist whose art, like California itself, is both geographically rooted and a metaphor for an American state of mind. Ruscha is a deft creator of photography, film, painting, drawing, prints and artist books, whose works are simultaneously unexpected and familiar, both ironic and sincere.
His most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.
Browse ArtistHis most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.