Edward Ruscha's first artist's book - and by far his best known title. Features black-and-white photographs of gasoline stations in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas captioned in all caps text with the name of the gas station pictured and it's location. [details]
1941 copy of a National Excelsior Daily Journal. This journal is the same type of day journal used by Ed Ruscha as a sketchbook, diary, documenting his early works. Ruscha would also appropriate the journal's name, National Excelsior, as the name of his own publishing imprint for his first artist's book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 27 - April 21, 1968. Introductory text:
"I felt right proud when my son, Edward, and friend Joe asked me to write an introduction to the catalogue.
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June/July 1979 issue of Journal. Edited by Debra Burchett and Bridget Johnson. Contents include: "For An Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life," by Martha Rosler; "Exploring the Mathematical Option in Art," by Bernar Venet; "No Money Back Anytime," by Kristine Stiles; "A Diamond is Forever," by Gregory Battcock; "Chymical Wedding," by Carole Caroompas; "To Pico," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Conceptual Art and the Continuing Quest for a New Social Context," by Robert Morgan; "The Level of Water," by Lawrence Weiner; "A The A The," by Alan Sondheim; "Conceptual Comments," by Douglas Huebler; "On Art Writing/Part I," by Clair Wolfe; "L Three Leers/W Three Whys," by John Baldessari; "Media: TeleVisions," by Christopher Knight; "The Dinner Party," by Melinda Wortz; "With a Dinner Party You Get Cheerleaders," by Suzanne Muchnic; "Photographs from the Dinner Party," by Ruth Askey; "The Chelsea Girls Return," by David James; "Photography: Two Photographic Books: Speaking About the Process of Making," by James Hugunin; "Painting: Back to Back," by Melinda Wortz. ... [details]
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January/February 1979 issue of the periodical "Journal." Edited by Jim Moisan, Debra S. Burchett, and Bridget Reak-Johnson. Contents include: "Why Is That Photographer Working in the Graveyard?" by Dody W. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, August 26 - October 26, 1997. Traveled to The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 22, 1997 - February 22, 1998; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, March 25 - May 31, 1998; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, June 27 - August 23, 1998; Frederick R. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, August 26 - October 26, 1997. Traveled to The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 22, 1997 - February 22, 1998; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, March 25 - May 31, 1998; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, June 27 - August 23, 1998; Frederick R. ... [details]
Spring 1975 - 1976 issue of Art-Rite, edited by Edit deAk and Walter Robinson. Contents include: "Demi," by Demi R; "Clothes (That Become You)," by Dale McConathy; "Social Realism: Or Living The Artistic Life," by Willy Lenski and Judy Riflka; "The Song of Lilith," by Sylvia Sleigh; "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," by Elaine Pàgels; "A Transcript of Patti Smith," by Patti Smith; "Rhymes Getting Even," by Edit deAk; "Pencil Moustache Makes Up," by Edit deAk; "How Very Bicentennial," by Walter Robinson; "Junk Politics," by Walter Robinson; "Trans - Atlantic Crossing," by Gregory Battcock; "Henry Pearson: Black Icons Into An Outer Space," by Lucy R. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in dual venues : "The Eighties" at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, December 19, 1987 - February 7, 1988 and "Pioneers" at Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA, November 23, 1987 - January 15, 1988. ... [details]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show "The Love of Art Comes First: Art & Project at the Kröller-Müller Museum," held at Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands, September 30, 2023 - February 25, 2024. ... [details]
