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Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0874271401ISBN 13: 9780874271409
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Slate-gray stamped cloth, 260 pp., many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with 2004-2005 exhibitions featuring the drawings of American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937). With foreword by Adam D. Weinberg and essays by Margit Rowell and Cornelia Butler. An interesting selection of pieces. ontents as follows: Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Cotton puffs, Q-tips, smoke and mirrors : the drawings of Ed Ruscha / Margit Rowell -- Information man / Cornelia Butler -- Plates.Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is among the most popular American artists working today. His evocations of commonplace subjects have earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with Conceptual art. This book, published to accompany Ruscha's first museum retrospective of drawings, showcases his singular vision and his wide range of highly personal mediums and techniques-from pastels and gunpowder to blood, coffee, and tobacco stains. Ruscha's work includes paintings, photographs, prints, books, and films, but his unique works on paper are perhaps his richest vein. Through his interpretations of cultural icons and vernacular subjects such as the Hollywood sign, trademarks, and gas stations, as well as his renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations, Ruscha proposes a modern landscape based on keen observation and wry humor. "Gunpowder, tobacco, coffee, rose petals, lettuce and blood are just a few of the unorthodox materials used by California-based artist Ed Ruscha, whose work is featured in this sumptuously produced monograph of drawings. Produced in conjunction with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this catalog features over 200 reproductions of the artist's sly and meticulously rendered drawings of stock phrases from pop culture (e.g. "Hollywood Calif," "Babycakes," "20th Century Fox"). The drawings are accompanied by two rather disjointed essays by exhibit curator Rowell and MoCA LA curator Butler. Rowell's essay focuses on the artist's working process, explaining that one reason Ruscha drew with gunpowder was because it was an easier medium to manipulate than graphite. She also points out some salient links between the artist's drawings and his interest in photography. Butler takes a more conceptual approach, examining the content of Ruscha's drawings and his working materials through a theoretical and thematic lens. While both essays offer welcome insights into the work of a highly mercurial artist, Rowell's reliance on stiff art historical jargon and Butler's disorganized presentation make for dense reading. Part of their difficulty may be that the drawings themselves, with their sparklingly light irony and deft, masterly touch, have strange, otherworldly resonances that are difficult to pin down with words. Ultimately, it's the strength of the work itself that makes this book a must-have for any Ruscha fan."--Publisher's Weekly review.
Published by Whitney Museum of Art, 2004
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Gray cloth with white titles to cover and spine. Issued without dustjacket. 204 color plates plus text illustrations. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg. With essays by Margit Rowell and Cornelia Butler. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition that opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in 2004, and went on to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. ; In gift-giving condition. As New. Tight, clean and crisp. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. In excellent condition. As New. ; r; 11 X 11 X 1 inches; 256 pages.
Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0874271401ISBN 13: 9780874271409
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Hardcover. Slate-gray stamped cloth, 260 pp., many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with 2004-2005 exhibitions featuring the drawings of American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937). With foreword by Adam D. Weinberg and essays by Margit Rowell and Cornelia Butler. An interesting selection of pieces. ontents as follows: Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Cotton puffs, Q-tips, smoke and mirrors : the drawings of Ed Ruscha / Margit Rowell -- Information man / Cornelia Butler -- Plates.Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is among the most popular American artists working today. His evocations of commonplace subjects have earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with Conceptual art. This book, published to accompany Ruscha's first museum retrospective of drawings, showcases his singular vision and his wide range of highly personal mediums and techniques-from pastels and gunpowder to blood, coffee, and tobacco stains. Ruscha's work includes paintings, photographs, prints, books, and films, but his unique works on paper are perhaps his richest vein. Through his interpretations of cultural icons and vernacular subjects such as the Hollywood sign, trademarks, and gas stations, as well as his renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations, Ruscha proposes a modern landscape based on keen observation and wry humor. "Gunpowder, tobacco, coffee, rose petals, lettuce and blood are just a few of the unorthodox materials used by California-based artist Ed Ruscha, whose work is featured in this sumptuously produced monograph of drawings. Produced in conjunction with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this catalog features over 200 reproductions of the artist's sly and meticulously rendered drawings of stock phrases from pop culture (e.g. "Hollywood Calif," "Babycakes," "20th Century Fox"). The drawings are accompanied by two rather disjointed essays by exhibit curator Rowell and MoCA LA curator Butler. Rowell's essay focuses on the artist's working process, explaining that one reason Ruscha drew with gunpowder was because it was an easier medium to manipulate than graphite. She also points out some salient links between the artist's drawings and his interest in photography. Butler takes a more conceptual approach, examining the content of Ruscha's drawings and his working materials through a theoretical and thematic lens. While both essays offer welcome insights into the work of a highly mercurial artist, Rowell's reliance on stiff art historical jargon and Butler's disorganized presentation make for dense reading. Part of their difficulty may be that the drawings themselves, with their sparklingly light irony and deft, masterly touch, have strange, otherworldly resonances that are difficult to pin down with words. Ultimately, it's the strength of the work itself that makes this book a must-have for any Ruscha fan."--Publisher's Weekly review. VG- (Ex-gallery, with few stamps & marks, label residue on spine, pages lightly tanned at edges, a nice book.).
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004
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Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2004
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Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. 258 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. 251 illustrations 204 in color, 5 black and white photographs of the artist. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY June 24-September 26, 2004, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA October 17, 2004-January 17, 2005 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC February 13-May 30, 2005. Book.
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Published by Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 2004
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 259 pages. Published in conjunction a retrospective exhibition that ran June 24 through September 26, 2004 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and then traveled to Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC for additional dates. Features a foreword by Adam D. Weinberg and essays by Margit Rowell and Cornelia H. Butler. Includes numerous illustrations, biography, selected bibliography, index of works in the exhibition and a subject index. A fine copy in cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued.
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. 1ère Édition. Whitney Museum New York 2005. 1 volume/1. -- NEUF /NEW -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée pleine toile grise. Format in-4°"carré"( 28,5 x 28,5 cm )( 1900 gr ). ------- 259 pages . ********** "" In a 1976 drawing by Ed Ruscha, the word "Promise" --spelled out in ribbon-like script --is suspended at an oblique angle against a delicate gray background and bathed in a gauzy white light. Somehow, this image perfectly sums up the hopeful feeling that success is right around the corner. Ruscha's ability to give concrete form to the inner life of words and images from popular culture has made him a rare breed of artist---a critic's darling whose work also fascinates ordinary art lovers. Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha collects more than 200 of Ruscha's coolly mysterious works on paper in a handsomely designed volume marred only by a hard-to-read gray typeface. The odd title comes from a remark the artist once made. He uses cotton puffs and swabs to rub gunpowder (which creates those smoky grays) or pastel into the rag paper. Author Margit Rowell emphasizes the influence of photography and film on Ruscha's visual outlook---as well as his training in graphic design and the Los Angeles "landscape" of billboards glimpsed from car windows. Rucha, who is also known for his paintings and his idiosyncratic photo books (depicting serial images of gas stations, parking lots and other banal sights), has been working on paper since the late 1950s. Rowell tracks the various themes and styles of his drawings, while essayist Cornelia Butler adds additional art world context. Although Ruscha has been called a Pop artist and a West Coast Surrealist, Butler sees him as "an essentially Conceptualist artist who seeks to render ideas as information." She singles out his "deeply eccentric nihilism.filtered through a keen humor." This book accompanies an exhibition of Ruscha's work on paper organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (June 24 Sept. 26, 2004). - Cathy Curtis . "" **************.
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Rowell,Margit, with an essay by Cornelia Butler. Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of ED RUSCHA. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg; 260 pp., 204 color, and 47 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art in association with New York, Abrams, and Gottingen, Steidl, 2004. This catalogue accompanies complete retrospective of Ruscha's drawn work that travels from the Whitney Museum to LA MoCA.