ED RUSCHA
Robert Miller Gallery
[Ed Ruscha]: ED RUSCHA. New York City: Robert Miller Gallery with the cooperation of the Leo Castelli Gallery, 1987. First edition [2,000 copies]. A very good hard cover book stamped with red varnished lettering without a dust jacket as issued and minor shelf wear including rubbing and a small divot on the front cover's spine juncture. Interior unmarked and very clean. Book Design by Edward Ruscha and John Cheim. Out-of-print.
10.75 x 10.75 hard cover book with 44 pages and 20 beautifully-printed plates of Ruscha's shadow paintings. Two thousand copies of this book have been published to accompany an exhibition of paintings by Ed Ruscha Published at the Robert Miller Gallery, New York in November 1987 with the cooperation of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Photography by Paul Ruscha. Book Design by Edward Ruscha and John Cheim.
Excerpted from Ed Ruscha's web site: "Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. In 1956 he moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute, and had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery. In 1973, Ruscha began showing his work with Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles, and currently shows with Gagosian Gallery.
Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist's books, Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha's early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach."