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Various small books : referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha /

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, ©2013Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262018777
  • 0262018772
Contained works:
  • Rawlinson, Mark Like trading dust for oranges
  • Ruscha, Edward. Works. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N7433.3 .V37 2013
Contents:
Like trading dust for oranges : Ed Ruscha and things of interest -- Various small books 1954-1987 -- Various small books 1991-2000 -- Various small books 2002 2006 -- Various small books 2007-2008 -- Various small books 2009 -- Various small books 2010 -- Various small books 2011.
Summary: In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk),
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Book Limited Loan Book Limited Loan Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 7433 VAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0009644

Includes bibliographical references.

Like trading dust for oranges : Ed Ruscha and things of interest -- Various small books 1954-1987 -- Various small books 1991-2000 -- Various small books 2002 2006 -- Various small books 2007-2008 -- Various small books 2009 -- Various small books 2010 -- Various small books 2011.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk),

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