twentysix gasoline stations (28 Ergebnisse)

. . . 1 Vol. . 72 pp. Folio Apaisado. Rústica. . Buen estado de conservación. Texto en castellano e inglés. Ilustrado. .

Zustand: Neuf.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungelesenes, vollständiges Exemplar; in sehr gutem Zustand, leichte Lagerspuren, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet -Diese Fotodokumentation hält mit 26 Bushaltestellen Momente der Peripherie im kroatischen Istrien fest. Dokumentarisch und konzeptuell nähert sich die fotografische Kartografie den unterschiedlichen Wahrnehmungen der Orte an. Die Methodik Ed Ruschas und insbesondere seine Fotoserie Twentysix Gasoline Stations dienen als Inspiration, um die Haltestellen und ihre Identität im Stadtgefüge zu untersuchen. Mit diesem Fotokonzept sowie den Texten werden die Beobachtungen analytisch dargestellt und entfalten zugleich eine große Poesie. Wie lebt es sich im Umland urbaner Realität Das Buch überträgt die Faszination für simple Bauweisen, Nutzungen, Standorte sowie die Ästhetik des Verfalls.Die in Rotterdam und Wien lebenden Fotografen und Urbanisten ANNA KAZIANKA (\*1994) und FALK LENNART KREMZOW (\*1989) erforschen die Schnittstellen zwischen Fotografie, Architektur und angewandtem Urbanismus. Mit konzeptueller und dokumentarischer Methodik fokussiert sich das Künstlerduo mit sozialkritischen Perspektiven auf die mobile Gesellschaft sowie urbane und ländliche Räume. 96 pp. Deutsch, Englisch.

In 1963, when Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations, his first book, he sent two copies to the U.S. Copyright Office, one to establish copyright, the other destined for the collection of the Library of Congress. Great! Recognition for the young artist. As you might imagine, LC receives a great deal of copyright material that it cannot store forever: commercial catalogues, advertising material, and many self-published books, among others. Jennings Wood, Chief, Exchange and Gift Division, sent Ed a very polite letter on October 2, 1963, as follows: "Dear Mr. Ruscha: I am, herewith, returning this copy of Twentysix Gasoline Stations, which the Library of Congress does not wish to add to its collection. We are, nevertheless, deeply grateful for your thoughtful consideration of our interests." What a blow! Ed turned this seeming setback into one of the wittiest pieces ever to appear in Artforum: a five-inch display ad on p. 55 of the March 1964 issue (volume 2, number 9). The following text accompanies a photograph of a hand holding the book: "REJECTED Oct. 2, 1963 by the Library of Congress Washington 25, D.C. copies available @ $3.00, National Excelsior 2351-1/2 Vestal Avenue Los Angeles 26, Calif. Wittenborn & Company 1018 Madison Avenue New York 21, New York." A facsimile copy of this letter accompanies the issue. This is item M6 in Edward Ruscha: editions 1959-1989 (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999). LC still does not own a copy of any edition of Twentysix Gasoline Stations, by the way. Later, Ruscha did layout and design work for Artforum, including the superbly inventive cover for the Surrealism issue, September 1966, volume 5, number 1 (see separate listing). Several pristine copies available of this rare, March 1964 issue of Artforum. Richly illustrated (no color this early). 60 pp. 27 x 26.5 cm (about 11 inches square). Cover by Larry Rivers. Includes articles on recent American ceramic art (Voulkos, etc.), Shiko Munakata, Pop Art in Canada, and, most notably, John Coplans on Wallace Berman. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diese Fotodokumentation hält mit 26 Bushaltestellen Momente der Peripherie im kroatischen Istrien fest. Dokumentarisch und konzeptuell nähert sich die fotografische Kartografie den unterschiedlichen Wahrnehmungen der Orte an. Die Methodik Ed Ruschas und insbesondere seine Fotoserie Twentysix Gasoline Stations dienen als Inspiration, um die Haltestellen und ihre Identität im Stadtgefüge zu untersuchen. Mit diesem Fotokonzept sowie den Texten werden die Beobachtungen analytisch dargestellt und entfalten zugleich eine große Poesie. Wie lebt es sich im Umland urbaner Realität Das Buch überträgt die Faszination für simple Bauweisen, Nutzungen, Standorte sowie die Ästhetik des Verfalls.Die in Rotterdam und Wien lebenden Fotografen und Urbanisten ANNA KAZIANKA (\*1994) und FALK LENNART KREMZOW (\*1989) erforschen die Schnittstellen zwischen Fotografie, Architektur und angewandtem Urbanismus. Mit konzeptueller und dokumentarischer Methodik fokussiert sich das Künstlerduo mit sozialkritischen Perspektiven auf die mobile Gesellschaft sowie urbane und ländliche Räume.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: mit Schutzumschlag. 180x140mm OPpd. m. SU. Many printed bw photos of gasstations. Still in good general condition. Case with signs of use. Cover and pages creased at corner. USADO / GEBRAUCHT / USED. With garnish sheet. Number 824 of 1000 copies. [art + gas + gasstation + photo + limited]. ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * 135,00 (reduced from 150,00) **.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ein Friseurladen, ein Asia Markt, Schilder über Schilder, Vorhänge, dahinter Wohnungen. Auf den ersten Blick ein Straßenzug wie jeder andere, doch irgendetwas irritiert. Schließlich begreift man, dass auf den Bildern nur Leerstände zu sehen sind. Seit zehn Jahren sind die Gebäude der Waldeggstraße unbewohnt, knapp weitere zehn Jahre werden es noch sein, ehe der 'Lückenschluss' zu einer innerstädtischen Autobahnachse erfolgt. Die Bilder des österreichischen Fotokünstlers Otto Hainzl verknüpfen die Dramaturgie des sozialen Lebens mit Fragestellungen zu urbanen Entwicklungskonzepten.Die Publikation zitiert Ed Ruschas ikonisches Künstlerbuch TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS von 1963. Und so spannt sich ein Bogen von der Automobilkultur der amerikanischen Sixties bis zu unserer europäischen Gegenwart und hinterfragt, in welche Richtung wir diese Entwicklung gestalten wollen.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 3rd edition, 1969, one of only 3000 copies. In original wraps, cover shows minor tanning and staining. Including a receipt from one of the pictured gas stations. Pages are mostly clean. This is the first artist's book by American pop artist Ed Ruscha and is often considered to the be first modern artist's book. It is a precurson and major influence on artist's book culture.

RUSCHA, Edward (illustrator). Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1962 [ie 1967]. Second edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies. Self published and printed by The Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California. The first edition was an edition of 400 numbered copies printed in 1963. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 179 x 140 mm). 48 pp. With numerous black-and-white photographs. Publisher's full printed wrappers lettered in red. In the original glassine dust jacket. Wittenborn and Company sticker on rear inner wrapper. Overall a fine copy. With numerous photosgrapsh by Ruscha of gasoline stations throughout the American southwest, including California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. "Twentysix Gasoline Stations, a modest publication consisting of black and white photographs with captions, is an iconic artist book. The photographs are of petrol stations, along the highway between Ruscha's home in Los Angeles and his parent's house in Oklahoma City. Clive Phillpot, writer, curator and former Director of the Library at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, observes that the photographs are not reproduced in a linear sequence, with five photographs out of order. Taken from the highway and often including large areas of forecourt or road, the shots appear to be simply factual records of the petrol stations. Each opening of the book reveals one or two photographs in varying but repeated layouts, with the photographs set in relatively large areas of white space. The captions consist of the name of the petrol station and its location (for example, 'Texaco, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles' and 'Flying A, Kingman, Arizona'). The front cover has the title printed in red as three separate lines, the stark brightness of the design muted by the wrap around protective cover. The book is the first in a sequence of photographic artist books by Ruscha. Twentysix Gasoline Stations was first published in 1963 (although the title page states 1962) in an edition of 400 numbered copies. It was subsequently republished in two unnumbered editions. Ruscha's books, and this one in particular, are considered seminal in the history of artist books." (Tate Gallery). HBS 68916. $3,250.

Softcover. Zustand: Poor. First Edition. [externally in pretty bad shape (see images and notes), with part of the front cover torn (or eaten) away, and general overall soiling and discoloration; the binding, however, is intact, and the internals are perfectly OK]. (B&W photographs) Here, my friends, we have that most lamentable and problematic of objects: a unique and highly collectable item that we must honestly acknowledge is in distinctly uncollectable condition -- the very sort of thing that the overworked verbal shrug "it is what it is" was coined to describe. And yet -- and yet -- there's no denying that it IS a thing, and quite a thing at that: an INSCRIBED copy of the FIRST printing of renowned artist Ed Ruscha's iconic first book, published under his own imprint in a numbered edition of just 400 copies (this being No. 87). The work itself is not "rare" -- there was a second edition (500 copies, 1967) and a third (a whopping 3,000 copies, 1969) -- and if your only ambition is to own a "nice" copy of this famous and influential work, well, heck, you might not even have to spend yourself into the four figures, and you'll still be one-up on the Library of Congress, which famously and politely rejected and returned the copy that Ed himself sent them in 1963, and to this day does not own a copy of any edition. (A not-too-subtle lack of respect for the 1960s L.A. art scene at play, maybe?) Anyway, those later printings are also "what they are" -- but THIS copy, for all its manifest depredations, is in a very rarefied class, having been INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the artist/author/photographer (in the year of publication, no less), as follows: "For / Sonny / From / Ed / 1963." The inscription has been authenticated by Mr. Ruscha himself, in an email exchange with our consignor in the Fall of 2022; a printed copy of these emails will be provided along with the book. Unfortunately, though, he couldn't recall, almost 60 years after the fact, who this "Sonny" was. It's fun to speculate that the inscribee might have been one of the notable Sonnys of American History -- Bono, Barger, Tufts, Jurgensen, and Liston come readily to mind -- but lacking any hard evidence, that's just a whole lotta wishful thinking. (And anyway, "Sonny" is about as common and all-American a nickname as you can find: even my little Nebraska hometown, population 900-something, had three or four Sonnys.) I have my own theory (although that's all it is), based on a comment of Ruscha's in a 1965 interview: "I showed the first book to a gasoline station attendant. He was amused." So I think that "Sonny" might well have been just such a pump jockey -- maybe even that very one -- possibly at one of the artist's regular fill-'er-up stops at the L.A. end of the California-to-Oklahoma journey that his book photographically traces. He might have been one of the Sons at the "Brown & Sons" APCO station in Oklahoma City, or maybe the guy who checked Ed's oil at the station that he depicted in his famous 1963 painting "Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas" (subsequently rendered as a widely-distributed print). Or -- to really play out the art-world fantasy -- maybe Sonny was the day-shift man at the famous "Double Standard" station, at the five-way intersection on the western edge of West Hollywood, that Dennis Hopper so memorably photographed (also circa 1963) -- which would make Ed's painting and Dennis's photo visual second cousins (or something like that). This is all wildly conjectural, of course -- but look at the poor little thing! Can we easily dismiss the idea that this shamefully mishandled copy of "Twentysix Gasoline Stations" might well have been stored IN a gas station for a few decades, possibly fallen behind an oil drum or lost beneath a pile of greasy rags? Maybe our man Sonny got fed up with the gas-pumping racket, stuffed his handful of belongings into a beat-up cardboard suitcase, lit out for Hawaii (where this copy was discovered by our consignor), and lived happily ever after as a surf-riding beach bum. It's unlikely that we'll ever know for sure, but you have to admit that none of these riffs are outside the realm of possibility. (It might as well be noted, too, that not a hell of a lot of copies of the first edition appear to have been signed at all; of the handful that have sold at auction in the last few decades -- at prices higher than we're asking here -- none have borne any authorial scribbling.) Better still, if you take possession of this unique copy, you will also assume custody of The Mystery of Sonny. If you can uncover the backstory, bully for you; but if not, you can just take my approach and make up your own. So to come full circle: "it is what it is" -- which is, in any event, a miracle of survival.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s--such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments, and Thirtyfour Parking Lots--are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city's functional architecture.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 30 x 24 cm, 70 pages, 21 Farbabbildungen/illustrations in color / 12 bw, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag/clothbound with jacket. - This attraction to combinations of word and image has naturally disposed Ruscha toward the book as an art form, and as both an object and subject in his paintings. This volume commemorates a bequest of paintings, photographs and books by Ruscha to the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, complementing their existing works. It offers a representative selection of books published by Ruscha, ranging from the legendary Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962) to On the Road (2009)--a new edition, designed and illustrated by Ruscha, of Jack Kerouac s 1957 novel.

Second edition. Signed by the author. Original white paper covers printed in red, with the original plain tissue wrapper. Housed in a bespoke quarter black morocco solander box. Illustrated with photographs in black and white throughout. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the covers bright and fresh with just a thin strip if very mild toning to the lower extreme edge of the spine. The contents are clean and bright. The original glassine has a small chip to the lower edge and mild toning. A very attractive example. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the dedication page "To Paquerette / love / [drawn arrow] / Ed Ruscha". Ruscha's first book, initiating his much-imitated cut back, literal aesthetic. Produced cheaply and accessibly, Ruscha's signature style is sympathetic to Warhol's Pop Art movement and made without use of heavy paper or glossy hard covers. The twenty six gasoline stations follow Route 66 from West to East; Los Angeles, where Ruscha lives to Oklahoma City, where he grew up. The final station, at Groom in Texas, marks the beginning of the return journey. The first printing was issued in an edition of 400 copies in 1963. This second edition was issued in an edition of 500 copies in 1967. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, number 209 of 400. Unpaginated, pp [48]. Original printed wrappers and with the original (and rare) glassine wrapper. Some slight spotting to edges of covers and a short blue biro mark to glassine on lower cover and a small spot on upper cover but overall in very good condition and Toning to edges and spine, crease to lower cover, head and foot of spine very slight chipped but overall in very good condition. Internally near fine. Twentysix Gasoline Stations is Ruscha's first book and widely regarded as the first modern artist's books. It consists simply of black and white photographs and brief captions stating the name of the petrol company and location of the station. The book's origins lie in Ruscha's long drives from California to his parents' home in Oklahoma. It sounds dull and it is meant to be, combining as Johanna Drucker says, "the literalness of early California pop art with a flat-footed photographic aesthetic informed by minimalist notions of repetitive sequence and seriality". Ruscha himself explained how he wanted "absolutely neutral material. My pictures are not that interesting.my book is more like a collection of readymades". He wanted, he said, "to be the Henry Ford of book making". This car imagery, combined with the gasoline stations have led some to see the book as a photographic version of a road movie - and Ruscha certainly draws on the gas station's central place in American popular culture. But Ruscha, brought up a Catholic, has lent his support to a more serious reading which sees his journey home through these stations as a form of religious journey, a modern, secular Stations of the Cross: "there is a connection between my work and my experience with religious icons". This sense of a pilgrimage with a defined endpoint is reinforced by Ruscha's decision to use as his last image a gasoline station owned by Fina.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. W : 24 x 30 cm, 286 Seiten/pages woth 400 color reproductions, Leineneinand/clothbound. - The 16 small artist s books Ruscha produced between 1962 and 1978 (Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, et al.) remain definitive classics of the genre. The texts written especially for Reading Ed Ruscha by Douglas Coupland and W.S. Di Piero explore Ruscha s use of text through the lens of literary and poetic form, while Beatrice von Bismarck, in her essay, examines the book as work, medium of publication and exhibition format. The catalogue s editor, Yilmaz Dziewior, presents an overview of Ruscha s engagement with artist s books and the written word. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Reading Ed Ruscha includes large-format illustrations of exhibitions and installation views, with 400 images in color.

Zustand: Wie neu. Steidl, Göttingen, 2004. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wraped in publisher`s plastic foil. Clothbound hardcover with a white foil embossing. 280 x 280 mm. 260 pages. 204 colour plates. Text in english. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "Showcases Ed Ruscha's singular vision and his wide range of highly personal mediums and techniques from pastels and gunpowder to blood, coffee, and tobacco stains. Ed Ruscha's work includes paintings, photographs, prints, books, and films, but his unique works on paper are perhaps his richest vein. Through his interpretations of cultural icons and vernacular subjects such as the Hollywood sign, trademarks, and gas stations, as well as his renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations, Ruscha proposes a modern landscape based on keen observation and wry humor." Ed Ruscha is also famous for excellent artist and photo books like Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass and Every Building on the Sunset Strip.***************Steidl, Göttingen, 2004. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweisst in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Hardcover ohne Umschlag (nur so erschienen). 280 x 280 mm. 260 Seiten. 204 farbige Abbildungen. Text in englischer Sprache. Perfekter Zustand! Sammler-Exemplar! Das Buch zeigt die Zeichnungen des Künstlers. Beeindruckend! Ed Ruscha ist auch berühmt für ausgezeichnete Künstlerbücher und Fotobücher wie Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass und Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Hardback in card slipcase. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. 25 x 30cm 556pp very good hardback contained within a buff-coloured card slipcase which has some minor marks to front and rear. Edward Joseph Ruscha , American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books, notably 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations', 'Every Building on the sunset Strip' and Thirtyfour Parking Lots'. An incredibly well produced volume including some fold-out colour reproductions. A heavy book, may need extra postage.

8vo. (178 x 140 mm). [24 leaves]. Title with copyright verso and 25 black-and-white photographic illustrations each with location caption. Original publisher's white printed wrappers, titles in black to front cover, and with original glassine. A very fine copy of Ruscha's 'Real Estate Opportunities'. From the first edition limited to 4,000 copies; no further editions were issued. 'The photographs are sober in style, like those in Twentysix Gasoline Stations and Some Los Angeles Apartments, and as in both of those books, signs are frequently featured. The inclusion of these professional "For Sale" signs is another echo of Ruscha's early life, for he initially wanted to be a commercial artist, learned signpainting techniques, and painted many commercial signs, including For Sale signs.' (Clive Philpot). [Engberg & Phillpot B12].

Zustand: Fine. First printing. Signed first edition of Ruscha's last solo photobook to use the minimal 'house style' made famous by TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS and other early works. The 25 black and white photographs of REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES frequently include "For Sale" signs, recalling Ruscha's early life as an aspiring commercial artist who "learned sign-painting techniques and painted many commercial signs, including For Sale signs" (Phillpot). Properties pictured, captioned with their addresses, include houses, residential lots, and forlorn stretches of barren land whose only neighbors are the telephone poles and roads of southern California. Uncommon signed. 7'' x 5.5''. Original white printed wrappers. Lacking glassine jacket. Edition of 4,000 unnumbered copies. 25 black and white photographic illustrations. [48] pages. Signed by Ruscha in pencil on front free endpaper. PROVENANCE: From the collection of longtime MIT Press editor Roger Conover, who published several books by and about Ruscha. Minimal edgewear.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. 1) Twentysix Gasoline Stations. 1/400. 8vo. 48pp. 1963. Photographs from this book inspired a number of the artist's paintings, drawings, and prints of gas stations. Slightly chipped at top of spine on glassine, spine slightly cocked with little yellow discoloration on head and tail of spine. Very light stain on top front edge, not affecting the type. Near fine. 2) Various Small Fires and Milk. 1/400. 8vo. 48pp. 1964. One-inch split along top front edge of glassine, minor chipping on head and tail of glassine spine. Two light vertical ink stripes on page fore-edge. Fine. 3) Some Los Angeles Apartments. 1/700. 8vo. 48pp. 1965. A number of the apartment buildings shown in this work also were the subjects of a series of drawings Ruscha made the same year. Glassine 1/4" smaller than book, as issued. Minor age toning on glassine. Fine. 4) Every Building on the Sunset Strip. 1/1000. 8vo. 1 continuos photographic accordion-fold out. 1966. Signed in pen on top-edge of silver-covered slipcase. Ruscha made a series of editioned photographs based in part on this book in 1995. Spine is yellowed with center-crease from being opened, slight scuffing on slipcase, otherwise fine. 5) Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles. 1/2413. 4to. 48pp. 1967. Pictorial flap on last page, as issued. The photographs in this book were taken by Art Alanis. Ruscha made a series of editioned photographs based on this work in 1999. Fine. 6) Royal Road Test. Ruscha, Edward; Mason Williams; Patrick Blackwell. 1/1000. 60pp. 1967. Spiral-bound wraps. Slightly creased on top right corner of front wrapper. Minor age yellowing to outer edges of interior pages. Near fine. 7) Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass. 1/2400. 64pp. 1968. Small 'Pasadena Art Museum' sticker on free front endpaper. Illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Ruscha made a series of editioned photographs based on this work in 1997. Slight age yellowing to outer edges of interior pages. Near fine. 8) Business cards. (Collaboration with Billy Al Bengston). 1/1000. 32pp. 1968. Faux wood-grain paper stock with mounted b/w photograph of Ruscha and Bengston, dated Jan. 3, 1968. Signed by Ruscha and Bengston on cover, additionally signed by Ruscha on inside cover. Bengston's business card with photographic card stapled onto blank page in rear, as issued. Business card is crumpled in each copy of the book as a nod to the "Dento" series of paintings he did in the 1960's. Photographs by Larry Bell and Ken Price. Fine condition. 9) Crackers. 1/5000. 240pp. 1969. Wraps with original printed dust jacket. Small 'Pasadena Art Museum' sticker on free front endpaper. This work illustrates Mason Williams' short-story "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers." Story is printed on the inside back flap of the dj. The characters in the photographs are Larry Bell, Lèon Bing, Rudi Gernreich and Tommy Smothers. Crackers, which was intentionally photographed as if it were a collection of film stills, was the basis for Ruscha's 1970 film Premium. No glassine. Small chip on bottom front-flap of dj, otherwise fine. 10) Real Estate Opportunities. 1/4000. 48pp. 1970. 25 full-page b/w reproductions of photographs of Real Estate in the Los Angeles area. Glassine yellowed on spine, otherwise fine. 11) Babycakes. 1/1200. 52pp. 1970. Bound in wraps with pink satin ribbon. This book was part of the portfolio Artists and Photographs, published under art dealer Marian Goodman's imprint, Multiples, Inc. Photographs by Ed Ruscha, Elizabeth Claman, Sid Felsen, Jerry McMillan and Danna Ruscha. Some light staining on back cover, faded and soiled around edges, otherwise fine. 12) A Few Palm Trees. 1/3900. 64pp. 1971. Before creating this book, Ruscha had considered making a book called Seventeen Hollywood Palm Trees. The project which was never realized, evolved into A Few Palm trees. Slight rubbing on edges of rear wrapper. Near fine. 13) Dutch Details. 1/3000. 23pp. 1971. A Publication of the Octopus Foundation withi.

Künstler: Ruscha, Edward . Verleger: Gagosian Gallery . Datum: 2015. Einladungskarte/ invitation card, s/w Abb. [Union, Needles, California from the artist book Twentysix gasoline Stations], 13,9 x 22,8 cm. annaehernd tadellos/ near mint.

Zustand: Wie neu. Steidl, Göttingen, 2006. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil. Clothbound flexible hardcover with a tipped-in photograph. 205 x 255 mm. 184 pages. 214 illustrations. Text in english. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "Although known for his paintings and drawings, California artist Ed Ruscha has also attracted critical attention for his photography. A new exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Ed Ruscha, Photographer, depart from earlier books to explore how the artist`s different disciplines - painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography - are guided and shaped by a single vision. Ruscha`s relationship to photography is complex and ambivalent, and the work is difficult to define. He has referred to this photography as a "hobby" but from the outset it has drawn considerable critical interest. the small books of photographs that ruscha produced in the sixties and seventies earned him a reputation as an underground artist among his peers, and have influenced subsequent generations of artists in Europe and North America. The photographs were snapshot size, with an amateurish quality that intrigued his contemporaries. Neither purely documentary nor solely artistic, their subject matter was stereotypical and bnal, with motifs drawn from sites in Southern California or the western United States. This, combined with their serial presentation, created a mythical road-movie or photo-novel effect with Beat Generation innuendos and inspired interest among artists at a time when serial logic was prominent in Pop art and Minimalism, and later in Conceptual art. this Volume, "Ed Ruscha, Photographer", is produced in cojunction with a traveling exhibition to be shown n Europe in 2006, organized by The Witney Museum of American Art, New York. The exhibition photographs have been selected from the collections of the Whitney and the artist by independent curator Margit Rowell, who is also the author of the publication." (from the publisher). Ed Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1937 and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1941 to 1956. He moved to Los Angeles, California and attended Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 to 1960. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in major museums and private collections throughout the world. In 2001, Ruscha was elected to The American Academy of Arts & Letters as a member of the Department of Art. He was chosen by the U.S. Department of State to represent the United States at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Ed Ruscha is famous for excellent artist and photo books like Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass and Every Building on the Sunset Strip.***************Steidl, Göttingen, 2006. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Hardcover in Leinen mit einer eingelassenen Fotografie. 205 x 255 mm. 184 Seiten. 214 Abbildungen. Text in englisch. Perfekter Zustand! Sammler-Exemplar! Ed Ruscha wurde 1937 in Omaha/Nebraska geboren und wuchs in Oklahoma auf. Er studierte am Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Sein Werk wird weltweit ausgestellt und ist Bestandteil vieler bedeutender Museen und Sammlungen. Ed Ruscha, der an vier Documenta-Ausstellungen teilnahm, ist Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Er lebt in Los Angeles. Ed Ruscha ist berühmt für ausgezeichnete Künstlerbücher und Fotobücher wie Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass und Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

First edition. Presentation issue (one of 25). Original white card covers printed in red, in the plain glassine dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout. A fine copy. The entire print-run was made up of 75 numbered copies for sale (of which 58 perished) and 25 presentation copies for the publisher. Produced in the style of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations, VARIOUS NEW YORK STOREFRONTS publishes 48 images in their original size and format in this limited edition print run of 75 hand-numbered copies. The unknown photographer using Kodachrome, shot pharmacies, cinemas, drugstores, liquor stores and restaurants in and around Manhattan. Kodachrome was Kodak's first commercially viable colour film. The photographs date from between 1947 and 1952 and were re-discovered over half a century later in a New York fleamarket. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Single sheet. Zustand: Very Good +. The very uncommon prospectus, issued by Heavy Industry Publications of Hollywood, circa 1971. Itemized on a large coated single sheet (22 1/2" wide x 18" tall) are all 12 of Ed Ruscha's now-iconic artist's books (up to this publication). Starting with "TwentySix Gasoline Stations" (1962) and running up through "A Few Palm Trees" and "Records", both from 1971. The large sheet has been folded into 1/8ths and has held up very well. Clean, bright and VG+, with neat, fairly unobstrusive creasing at the folds. The first 8 of Ruscha's artist's books, chronologically, have accompanying photos and they are: 1) TwentySix Gasoline Stations (1962); 2) Various Small Fires (1964); 3) Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965); 4) Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966); 5) ThirtyFour Parking Lots (1967); 6) Royal Road Test (1967); 7) Business Cards (1968); and 8) Nine Swimming Pools (1968). And then, hand-stamped onto this prospectus: 9) Crackers (1969); 10) Real Estate Opportunities (1970). And finally, hand-written in ink onto this copy: 11) A Few Palmtrees (1971) and 12) Records (also 1971). Scarce, of-the-period (early '70s) Ed Ruscha ephemera.

8vo. (180 x 141 mm). [24 leaves]. Leaf with title and copyright verso and 34 captioned black and white photographic illustrations. Original publisher's white wrapers, title in green to front cover and original glassine, the glassine worn, some consequent toning to lower edge of front wrapper. The first edition of Ed Ruscha's 'Some Los Angeles Apartments'. From the first edition limited to 700 copies; a second edition was issued in 1970. 'His (Ruscha's) third book, Some Los Angeles Apartments returned to the more varied page layouts of Twentysix Gasoline Stations, but like the two previous books, the most common page spread contained a single photographon the upper right-hand portion of the page. That said, themix of layoutsis richer than in the first book'. (Clive Philpot). [Engberg & Phillpot B3].