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With his playful, sublime, genre-defying paintings, prints, photographs, and books, Ed Ruscha has transformed the landscape of 20th century art. The imagery of the gas station, and its rich association with American car and highway culture, became a pivotal part of Ruscha’s visual lexicon when he first approached the subject in the early 1960s.
As Ruscha has explained, the series was originally conceived as an artist’s book, the first of many seminal publications that he would go on to produce throughout his illustrious career.
“I wanted to make a book of some kind. And at the same time . . . my whole attitude about everything came out in this one phrase that I made up for myself, which was “twenty-six gasoline stations.” I worked on that in my mind for a long time and I knew that title before the book had even come about. And then, paradoxically, the idea of the photographs of the gasoline stations came around, so it’s an idea first—and then I kind of worked it down.”
Ed Ruscha, Twentsix Gasoline Stations, cover and interior spread Published in 1963, Twentysix Gasoline Stations featured exactly that—26 photographs taken along Route 66 between Los Angeles, where he lived, and Oklahoma City, where he was born and raised. While that stretch of highway was personal for him—it also represented something far more universal, and far more American: the allure of the open road.
This complete portfolio, printed in 1989, is comprised of 10 of the 26 images included in the book.
來源
加州聖塔莫尼卡Griffin Contemporary畫廊（2004年）
洛杉磯Adam Biesk藝術顧問 + 藝術管理（2004年）過往展覽
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015
Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020文學
Engberg, Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1999, vols. I & II, no. 187-196; vol. I, pp. 53-55; vol. II, pp. 108-109 (illustrated, vol. l, pp. 53-55)
NSU Art Museum, American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, exhibition catalogue, p. 32 (Standard)藝術家簡介
艾德．拉斯查
American • 1937
Quintessentially 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.
15
《油站》
1962年作
十組銀鹽照片（1989年印）
不同尺寸從 8 x 18 英吋（20.3 x 45.7 公分）到 10 1/8 x 10 3/4 英吋（25.7 x 27.3 公分）
款識：標題、19/25（裱背）
估價
$100,000 - 150,000
成交價$133,350
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
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