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PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100714845485

ISBN-139780714845487

eBay Product ID (ePID)45954839

Product Key Features

Book TitleEd Ruscha

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Artists / General

Publication Year2005

GenreArt

AuthorRichard D. Marshall

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight59.1 Oz

Item Length11.5 in

Item Width10 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Organised thematically, this good-looking tome lets the work speak for itself. Richard Marshall keeps his copy brief; each section is introduced by an essay that mixes biography and art history with quotes from the artist. I've always admired Ruscha's work without really liking it. I'm completely converted."-- Time Out "Helping us to understand his career... is Marshall's superb, sympathetic, scrupulously researched and detailed text. Beautifully designed, illustrated and easy to follow, almost as if it were one of the artist's works, Phaidon's Ed Ruscha is like having a private retrospective between the covers of a book. As such, it is highly recommended."-- The Oklahoman, "Organised thematically, this good-looking tome lets the work speak for itself. Richard Marshall keeps his copy brief; each section is introduced by an essay that mixes biography and art history with quotes from the artist. I've always admired Ruscha's work without really liking it. I'm completely converted."--Time Out "Helping us to understand his career... is Marshall's superb, sympathetic, scrupulously researched and detailed text. Beautifully designed, illustrated and easy to follow, almost as if it were one of the artist's works, Phaidon's Ed Ruschais like having a private retrospective between the covers of a book. As such, it is highly recommended."--The Oklahoman

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromEighth Grade

Dewey Decimal709.2

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisEd Ruscha (b. 1937) initially gained attention in the early 1960s with paintings, drawings, and photographic books that focused on his fascination with the unique culture, vernacular, and sensibility of his adopted home of Los Angeles. But Ruscha, who is wary of labels, refused to be categorized as a Pop artist, and indeed, his work reaches beyond that classification. He has been considered a "West Coast" artist, and although Los Angeles is undeniably the source of inspiration for his work, the themes he addresses are far-reaching and universal. A renewed interest in Ruscha's work in recent years has led to major exhibitions that toured the U.S., and a number of individual shows in Europe, which reevaluate his work in this broader scope. This is the paperback edition of the first monograph on Ruscha's work; it looks with discernment and insightful detail at the prolific and many-faceted career of an artist whom one could describe as Pop, Conceptual, or Surrealist; a painter as well as a print-, book-and filmmaker. The thematic and loosely chronological structure of the book brings to light the diversity of Ruscha's work, while at the same time underlining the continuity and recurrence of themes and ideas within his ever surprising and prolific career.