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Ed Ruscha
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph (Hand Showing Book Cover), 1964-1977
- Estimate
- $3,000 - 5,000
$3,024
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, with accompanying book Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, all contained in the original black cloth-covered portfolio, printed later.
2011
S. 7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (18.7 x 18.7 cm)
The print signed, dated 1963-2011 and numbered 5/40 in black ink.
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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.