Description
Walther König / Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2012
Grey cloth hardcover without dust jacket as issued, 30 x 24.5 cm, 285 pages, illustrated in color and black and white. Text in English/German. ISBN 9783863352325
An important if not seminal book on Ed Ruscha’s books. When you put it on a shelf next to Ed Ruscha: Other Stuff published a decade later and Various Small Books published by MIT Press in 2013, one can really grasp the contribution one artist has made to the medium and format of artist books.
Reading Ed Ruscha focuses on the artist Ed Ruscha’s uninterrupted fifty-year-long artistic interest in books, the written word, and the act of reading. In addition to large-format reproductions of the works on show, there are also illustrations of the entire range of Ed Ruscha’s artist books. Informative essays by Beatrice von Bismarck, Douglas Coupland, Yilmaz Dziewior, and W.S. Di Piero provide comprehensive insight into the medium of the book, its status as work, as publication medium, and as exhibition format.
CONTENTS:
Yilmaz Dziewior
9 Ed Ruscha lesen
18 Reading Ed Ruscha
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
26 Über das Lesen von Ed Ruscha
31 On Reading Ed Ruscha
W. S. DI PIERO
36 Sand in der Vaseline
46 The Sand is in the Vaseline
BEATRICE VON BISMARCK
54 Ausstellungen, Agenten und Aufmerksamkeit –
In den Räumen der Bücher Ruschas
66 Exhibitions, Agents, and Attention —
In the Spaces of Ruscha’s Books
77 KÜNSTLERBÜCHER · ARTIST BOOKS
177 WEITERE WERKE IN DER AUSSTELLUNG ·
OTHER WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
270 Biografie · Biography
272 Werke in der Ausstellung · Works in the Exhibition
275 Bibliografie Bibliography
A very good copy.
