Allen Ruppersberg. The Secret of Life and Death. Volume I, 1969-1984. Essay by Howard Singerman.

RUPPERSBERG, Allen. Brown, Julia (Ed.).

Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art & Black Sparrow Press., Los Angeles / Santa Barbara., 1985

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4to. pp. 127. Colour & monochrome illustrations throughout. Essays and seven works by Ruppersberg. Bound-in folder: 'Love Me Tender', which contains five sheets of printed stationary, and eight 9 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. black & white photographic prints, and with the mounted device present. Original publisher's colour printed boards and plain paper jacket as issued. The deluxe edition, published on the occasion of Ruppersberg's retrospective at MOCA Los Angeles. This copy one of a limited edition of 250 numbered examples, handbound in pictorial boards by Earle Gray. This deluxe edition features an artwork / multiple entitled 'Love Me Tender' (which incorporates a primitive electronic 'music box' that plays a version of the Elvis Presley classic when opened - but as usual the battery is long dead).

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Title
Allen Ruppersberg. The Secret of Life and Death. Volume I, 1969-1984. Essay by Howard Singerman.
Author
RUPPERSBERG, Allen. Brown, Julia (Ed.).
Publisher
The Museum of Contemporary Art & Black Sparrow Press., Los Angeles / Santa Barbara.
Publication year
1985
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