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Since 1956 when Ruscha moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute, photography has been very important to his artistic practice. Using his Yashica camera, Ruscha recorded parking lots, swimming pools and other urban features of the Los Angeles landscape to create 16 artist books over a 13 year period. More recently he has been interested in the book itself as a subject. This photographic portfolio of five photographs shows books as pure sculptural objects in space, devoid of graphic content. Edward Ruscha (American, 1937) Edward Joseph Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1937 and is especially known for his ironic, social critical paintings and prints. He produced numerous photo books in the early 1960s and had his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1963; later, in 1969, he decided to join the famous gallery of Leo Castelli in New York. In the period from 1965 to 1969, Ruscha worked as a layout artist for the Artforum magazine under the pseudonym ‘Eddie Russia’. From 1969 he taught as a visiting professor for printing and drawing at the UCLA. Ed Ruscha who now lives in Los Angeles, has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions and museum retrospectives. Ed Ruscha’s painting, titled Smash from 1963, was purchased at auction by his dealer Larry Gagosian for a record 30.4 million dollars in November, 2014. Condition ‘Books (Single Book on Slant)’ has two tiny 2 mm crimps along the lower left margin edge. ‘Books (Three Books on Slant)’ has one tiny 2 mm crimp in the lower left margin corner. The five photographs are in apparent overall very good condition, unexamined outside of frames. Sie haben Interesse an diesem Objekt? Vorgebot abgeben