Edward Ruscha Book order

Focusing on Ed Ruscha's groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art, this comprehensive three-volume set serves as a definitive catalogue raisonné of his books, prints, and photographic editions. It highlights his pioneering role in conceptual photography and the artist's book movement, showcasing over 500 graphic works. Curator Siri Engberg provides detailed entries and new photography, while scholarly essays offer insights into Ruscha's artistic journey. Additional resources include his 1975 text "The Information Man," a bibliography, and visual archives documenting his collaborations.

Now available in paperback, this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement — the riotous form of art that deconstructed sound, language, and images to re-assemble them into new objects, texts and meanings. A determined believer in women’s rights, Höch questioned conventional concepts of partnership, beauty and the making of art, her work presenting acute critiques of racial and social stereotypes, particularly that of her native Germany. Focusing on Höch’s collages, this book examines the artist’s career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media, through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both humorous and often moving. Included are essays that examine themes such as the concept of the »New Woman« and the legacy of German colonialism. Featuring international scholarship on a groundbreaking artist, this volume brings together important source texts and reference material, which were first translated into English for the original edition of this book.

This lush and large volume on the Surrealist master presents color reproductions of the paintings from the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, with extensive descriptive text by noted Dali scholar Robert S. Lubar. Also features a chronology and Bibliography. 105 color, 20 b&w illustrations.

One hundred seventy-one monochromes are reproduced in an overview of the nature and evolution of photomontage

Genius. Anti-artist. Charlatan. Impostor! Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. No artist of the 20th century has aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art, the very nature of which Duchamp challenged and redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its traditionally privileged optical nature. At the same time, he never ceased to be engaged, openly or secretly, in provocative activities and works that transformed traditional artmaking procedures. Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp's widow, this is one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding and misinformation

Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers-mainly André Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, René Magritte, Charles Estienne, René Huyghe and others-who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism-Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh-became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination within the movement with magic.

DOUBLE AMERICANISMS shows a new series of linguistic paintings informed by his memories of Oklahoma City, where Ed Ruscha spent his teenage years, and the city's distinctive slang: used parchment drumheads are inscribed with locutions whose shared feature is the use of a double negation - "I Ain't Telling You No Lie,„ for example, and “I Can't Find My Keys Nowhere." Expressions like these remind him of the way people around him used to speak, and rather than disavowing them as incorrect English, he picks up on them and transforms them into art. The inexorable passage of time is a recurrent theme in Ruscha's work, and by reminiscing about his upbringing, he also emphasizes the continuity between his younger self and who he is now - as the artist sees it, he really has not changed much at all. Centerpiece of the book is a series of six large-format pictures - digital reproductions of three paintings (again, true to side and laterally reversed) showing the star-spangled banner in different conditions that Ruscha created between 1985 and 2017. In the first pair of pictures (after Mother's Boys, 1987), the American flag proudly waves before a radiant blue sky, but in the second set (after Untitled [American flag on pole], 1985), dark clouds roll in, and in the third (after Our Flag, 2017), a tattered banner before a black backdrop betokens a disastrous outcome.

Ed Ruscha (*1937) is a prominent figure in 20th century American art, known for his iconic interpretations of American society. His work features cool, elegant representations of stylized gas stations, Hollywood logos, and archetypal landscapes. Since the early 1960s, Ruscha has radically redefined modern visual culture in Los Angeles, where he lives and works. His motifs are derived from the perspectives of the road, windshield, and movie screen, capturing the expansive, flat desert cityscape. The exhibition catalogue showcases over 50 works from the UBS Art Collection, spanning from around 1960 onward. It highlights Ruscha's innovative technical and graphic approaches, including studies for his most iconic paintings and artist books. The publication, titled after one of Ruscha's "word-pictures," includes an essay by George Condo and an interview between the curator of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the artist. The exhibition runs from May 17 to August 19, 2018, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, and from September 14 to December 16, 2018, at KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes in Bergen.

The first publication to explore the friendship between Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali, two of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The book features previously unpublished material and accompanies a ground- breaking exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Surrealism is one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. While its contribution to the art and literature of the century is well known, its relation to the development of intellectual ideas has only recently become a matter of serious investigation. twentieth century.