1st Edition Art Book, "Ed Ruscha - Ice", Text by Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig

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Offered is the 1st edition art exhibition catalog, "Ed Ruscha - Ice", Text by Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis … Read more Offered is the 1st edition art exhibition catalog, "Ed Ruscha - Ice", Text by Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig. This was published as a companion to his retrospective exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England. Dust jacket, cloth cover, publisher's insert.
Measures 9.75" wide, 11.625" tall, 1" deep
ISBN: 3908247330
Publisher: Scalo Publishers
Hardcover : 192 pages
First Edition. Bound in blue boards with white spine lettering and original pictorial dust jacket.
From the Publisher:
One of the most consistently inventive artists of recent times, Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. From his early powerful word paintings to his influential artist books of the sixties and seventies to his recent colorful views of generic mountains, Ruscha has investigated the spaces between highways and journeys, images and words, abstraction and representation, public imagery and the contemporary landscape. In this publication, which accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig focus on all aspects of Ruscha's career, revealing him not merely as an artist closely linked with Los Angeles, but as an important international figure in contemporary art.
Ed Ruscha was born on the 16 December, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, but he grew up in Oklahoma City. In 1956, he moved to Los Angeles. Working occasionally as a graphic designer, Ruscha began to focus on fine art and began using words in his paintings, an interest that has continued to the present. In the sixties and seventies, Ruscha produced a series of books that have deeply influenced many artists since. See less