Various small books : referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha / edited and compiled by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, and Hermann Zschiegner ; text by Phil Taylor with an essay by Mark Rawlinson.

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Material type: Text

TextDescription: 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm; text txt; still image sti; unmediated n; volume ncISBN:

9780262018777
0262018772

Contained works:

Rawlinson, Mark Like trading dust for oranges
Ruscha, Edward. Works. Selections

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DDC classification:

709.04 RUS

Contents:

Like trading dust for oranges : Ed Ruscha and things of interest -- Various small books 1954-1987 -- Various small books 1991-2000 -- Various small books 2002 2006 -- Various small books 2007-2008 -- Various small books 2009 -- Various small books 2010 Various small books 2011.

Summary: In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist\'s books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these small books were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha\'s fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha\'s have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha\'s books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha\'s Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk),

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100626606

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Riffs, revisions, knockoffs, and homages- artists pay tribute to Ed Ruscha's famous photo-conceptual small books. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities , and A Few Palm Trees . Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes.
These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects- Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later . Some offer a humorous variation- Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires , with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different- None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip . Some reach for a connection with Ruscha himself- 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's .
With his books, Ruscha expanded the artist's field of permissible subjects, approaches, and methods. With VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS , various artists pay tribute to Ed Ruscha and extend the legacy of his books.

Includes bibliographical references.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist\'s books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these small books were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha\'s fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha\'s have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha\'s books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha\'s Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk),

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeff Brouws is a photographer whose work is in many private and public collections, including Harvard's Fogg Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His homages to Ruscha include Twentysix Abandoned Gas Stations .

Wendy Burton is a photographer whose work is in such collections as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the University of Louisville Photographic Archive. Her homage to Ruscha is Real Estate Opportunities .

Hermann Zschiegner is a principal in the award-winning New York-based design agency TWO-N, a member of the ABC Artists' Book Cooperative, and the author of Thirtyfour Parking Lots on Google Earth .