Title:
Untitled (exhibition catalog 1972)
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Medium: Prints, Lithograph, black offset printing on white paper
Year: 1972
Size: height - 4.5 in, width - 3.75 in, depth - 1.2 in
Markings: unsigned, as issued.
Edition: First edition of 2,000
Foundry/Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Catalogue Raisonné: M25
Author: Engberg
Estimate: from $500 to $600
Seller's Description:
Ruscha completed this exhibition catalog while he was creating his artist books. The front cover and spine even feature images from his book "A Few Palm Trees." The book is 436 pages, with 261 pages with text and images, 175 blank. This book accompanied an exhibition of prints, drawings, and books by Ruscha at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 18-May 28, 1972. Comes with artist's calling card.
This book by Ed Ruscha contains 15 black and white images with the place the photograph was taken on the opposite page. A few Palm Trees was published Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood CA in 1971 in an edition of 3900 copies.
The books, begun in 1963, were Ruscha’s first foray into working with the published image, producing the most renowned series of artist’s books. These books were not only about editions, but the replication of reproductions. Each book was made up of a series of photographs, the books aptly named for their visual content.
The industrial feel of offset lithography that Ruscha was exposed to in a short apprenticeship with Saul Marks at Plantain Press showed in his artist’s books, and soon he begun to receive recognition for this unique body of work.
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