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Book Description: Whitney Museum and Harry N. Abrams Inc, New York, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued. Ruscha, Edward (illustrator). Issued without dust jacket. New copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap-no markings 251 ill., 204 in full color. Bookseller Inventory # 020715

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Book Description: Steidl Publishers. Couverture rigide. Book 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 . "" **************. Bookseller Inventory # zvel123

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Book Description: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004. Hard Cover. Book Condition: NEW. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, 259 pp., chiefly illus. (some col.), bib. notes, indexes; 29 cm. BRAND NEW. Shrinkwrapped. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This landmark exhibition presents more than two hundred of Ed Ruscha's original works on paper, ranging from depictions of vernacular objects, trademarks, and gas stations, to renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations. His use of unusual media, including fruit and vegetable juices, gunpowder, blood, and tobacco juice, further attests to the ingenuity of this major American artist." - Publisher. Exhibition Catalogue. Bookseller Inventory # 029616

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Book Description: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York NY, 2004. Cloth. Book Condition: New. 258 pp., 251 illustrations 204 in color, 5 B&W 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. Bookseller Inventory # 004389

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Book Description: Book Condition: New. New item. Bookseller Inventory # QX-068-10-5629805

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Book Description: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 2004. Cloth. Book Condition: New. First Edition. 256 pp., 251 illustrations 204 in full color. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 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. Bookseller Inventory # 008382

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Book Description: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Distribution), 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 260 pp. With 251 ills. (204 col. ). 29 x 29 cm. Bookseller Inventory # 60157

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