September - October 1981 issue of Journal Contemporary Art Magazine, edited by Bridget Johnson. Contents include: "David Salle Interview," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Knud Merrild: To Be Transformed in the Flux," by Susan Ehrlich; "Pastel, Juice and Gunpowder: The Pico Iconography of Ed Ruscha," by Robert C. ... [details]
Spring 1982 issue of Journal. Edited by Frances Colpitt. Contents include: "The Importance of Permanence," by Donald Judd; "Intentional Acts of Identification : Legrady and Maclay," by Mark Johnstone; "Mr. ... [details]
Summer 1981 issue of Journal. Edited by Bridget Johnson. Contents include: "An Interview with Robert Flick," by Susan C. Larsen; "You Can't Get Then from Now: I. Oskar Fischinger, II. The Whitney Brothers" by William Moritz; "Bastian Cleve: Stranger in a Strange Land," by Douglas Edwards; "Tom Lesser: Coming into View," by Paul Arthur; "An Interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin," by Amy Taubin; "Taking Up Space: Brakhage, Snow and David Wilson," by Grahame Weinbren; "Light and Lost Bells: The Films of Chick Strand," by David James; "Now You See Them; Now You Don't: The Distributions and Exhibition of the Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles," by Samir Hachem; " "No One Can Stop Me!" An Interview with John Dorr," by Mitch Tuchman; and "Pedagogic Transformations," by Robert Janz. ... [details]
Fall 1982 issue of Journal, edited by Michael Delgado. Contents include: "On Pictures and Meaning," by John Brumfield; "On Number Time and Emotion," by John Whitney; "Defining the Avant-Garge," by Richard Hertz; "Art with a Capital "A" and Television Executives," by Michael Delgado; "The Art Economist," by Ken Friedman; "Bauhaus Brochure," by unattributed artists; "The Open Road of Risk: George Herms, Wallace Berman, the Beats, and West Coast Visionary Poetics," by Robert L. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Journal. Edited by Michael Delgado, Jerry Dreva, and Marianne Zlotnick. Contents include: "Art Norms in 1982," by Ted Castle; "Art Fashion," by David Carrier; "Popular Imagery," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; "The Difference Between Absence and Not Being Missed," by Geralyn Donahue and Joan Wallace; "Too Good to Be True," by Thomas Lawson; "Paragraphs Towards an Essay Entitled "Restoration Comedies," by Howard Singerman; "Movies as Modern Muse," by Gerard Haggerty; "A Brief Commentary on Latin American Art," by Imogen Sieveking; "Words and Pictures," by John Brumfield; "Photography: A Bourgeois Success Story," by James Hugunin; "Artists' Pages," by Hesh Rosen and Benjamin Kaiser; "Colson's Corner," by unattributed artists. ... [details]
September/October 1983 issue of Journal. Edited by Cindy Berry. Contents include:"Guy de Cointet, In Memorium," by unattributed artists; "History Repeats Itself, Part II," by unattributed artists; "Why I Go to the Movies Alone," by Richard Prince; "Representational Drawing Today," Phyllis Plous; "After the Revolution, Cuba in Photographs," by Emily Hicks; "Big Folks," by Suzanne Muchnic; "Is It Curtains for the T. ... [details]
Winter 1981 issue of Journal. Edited by Michael Delgado, Jerry Dreva, and Marianne Zlotnick. Contents include: "L.A. Demystified," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Schjeldahl Demystified," by Peter Plagens; "Trends: Traditions and Dirt: An Opinionated Guide to the Current State of Art in Northern California," by Robert Atkins; "Exhibitions in Print," by Ronald Benom, Kevin Boyle, Carole Caroompas, Carl Cheng (John Doe Co. ... [details]
Winter 1986 issue of JOURNAL, edited by Lane Relyea. Contents include "Travelog: If You Die in the University Hospital," by Michael Lesy; "Seduction and Submission: A Study fo Ecstasy," edited by Connie Fitzsimons, with contributions and projects by Jochen Gerz, William S. ... [details]
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]