Babycakes: With Weights

RUSCHA, Edward

Published by Multiples, Inc, New York, 1970

About this Item

New York: Multiples, Inc.], 1970. First edition of Ruscha's eleventh book. From an edition of 1200. Small square octavo (7 1/2 x 6 inches; 190 x 152 pp). 52 pp. With black-and-white photographs of one baby (Rusha's own) and twenty-one cakes. Each with their respective weights printed below. Photographs by Elizabeth Claman, Sid Felson, Jerry McMillan, Danna Ruscha and Ed Ruscha. Bound in the publisher's original robin's-egg blue wrappers. Front wrapper with green flocked lettering. Wrappers and pages tied together with pink satin ribbon. Back wrapper with a very light crease to bottom corner. Otherwise about fine. "Babycakes With Weights was originally issued by Goodman's imprint as part of the boxed portfolio set Artists and Photographs, with a catalog and works by 18 other contemporary artists (Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others). Despite the cover's uncharacteristic soft pastels and textures, the book's photographs are in black and white, as austere as frosted cakes ever are. The pictured baby, at a stated 15 lbs 8 oz, weighs double the largest cake shown, or approximately 70 Hostess cinnamon rolls." (Sotheby's). Engberg B11 HBS 69515. $2,750.

Seller Inventory # 69515

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Babycakes: With Weights
• Publisher: Multiples, Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1970
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: RUSCHA, Edward
• Edition: First Edition.
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  • Photography
  • Art
  • Cookery and Wine