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Book Description: Windsor Press, Vero Beach, Florida, 2003. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Photographically illustrated laminated French-fold wrappers. Drawings and paintings by Ed Ruscha. Foreword by Alannah Weston. Essay by Olivier Berggruen. Includes a biography and illustrated list of plates. Designed by Beth Derbyshire and Sarah Neal at Zephyr Projects. Unpaginated (96 pp.), with 32 four-color plates and additional color and black and white illustrations, finely printed on heavy coated paper by Aspen Graphic Communications Limited. 11 x 11-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2003-2004 exhibition "Ed Ruscha: The Drawn Word," at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida. CONDITION: New. From the publisher: "The Drawn Word collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In them, he comments on our relationships with certain words, employing their visual impact, sound, and meaning, bringing all of these elements together via humor, among other tools. The work is distinctly American in its references to evocative places, like Hollywood, and in its bold, often mono-syllabic style of communication. Appropriately, the design of The Drawn Word evidences a conceptual relationship to the work, incorporating layout grids in reference to Ruscha's interest in commercial design, and phonetic translations of each of Ruscha's words to emphasize the importance of sound in their choosing. Bookseller Inventory # 101963

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