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Ed Ruscha
Seven Artists Books
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 9,000
$6,875
Lot Details
Seven artist books,
1966-1980
various sizes
Nine Pools signed in black ink on the first page, all from various edition sizes, five books are first edition copies, including Hard Light, Colored People, Every Building on Sunset Strip, Babycakes With Weights, and Crackers.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including: Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966; Crackers, 1969; Babycakes With Weights, from the portfolio Artists and Photographs, 1970; Colored People, 1972; Nine Swimming Pools And A Broken Glass, 1976; Hard Light (with Lawrence Weiner), 1978; and Royal Road Test, 1980
Literature
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.