Allen Ruppersberg: Collector's Paradise: No Time Left to Start Again, The B and D of R 'n' R

Ruppersberg, Allen et al.

ISBN 10: 0977869652 / ISBN 13: 9780977869657

Published by [New York] Christine Burgin, 2013

About this Item

Pictorial stiff wrappers with the rare dust jacket for the Wiels exhibition), unpaginated, illustrations (chiefly in color), 28 cm. Very good/fine, spine dj sunned, clean, crisp, signed by Ruppersberg. Indeed, with the rare dust jacket used for the Wiels exhibition, May 16 August 17, 2014, Brussels (Belgium). This dust jacket also contains an essay by Walter Benjamin and a note by Austin Teschemacher.

Seller Inventory # JHJ_2025_09_04_1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Allen Ruppersberg: Collector's Paradise: No Time Left to Start Again, The B and D of R 'n' R
• Publisher: [New York] Christine Burgin
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977869652
• ISBN 13: 9780977869657
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Art
  • Conceptual Art

About this title

Synopsis

Collector’s Paradise is Allen Ruppersberg’s unique reflection on the history of popular American music. The product of years of combing flea markets and yard sales in search of both the visual and recorded history of rock and roll, this book traces rock and roll back to the Minstrel days and American popular song post-Civil War, in a chronological list of 1,500 key recordings and more than 300 color illustrations of material from Ruppersberg’s collection. In his introductory essay, Ruppersberg discusses the urgency he feels in creating this narrative of a common musical history before it is lost: If you live long enough you begin to see the endings of the things in which you saw the beginnings. “It seemed to me … that this was the last possible moment to be able to gather any of this material in the manner I did and I am even more convinced now that I was right.”