Every Building on the Sunset Strip
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Library Information and Colophon
Title |
Every Building on the Sunset Strip View record in CONTENTdm |
Publication |
Los Angeles 1966 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R872 1966 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. of illus. in box. 19cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Photo-collage arranged in an accordian to reproduce the layout of the Sunset strip. Labels identify the housing blocks and businesses. Each side of the strip run in upper and lower panels. |
Biography
Ed Ruscha
(1937- )
American
Ed Ruscha, although first known as a painter, has also made drawings, prints, films, photographs, and books. He is generally associated with the early 1960s Los Angeles pop movement as it often draws on and documents Western popular culture.1
Ed Ruscha was born in 1937 in Omaha Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to attend the Chouinard Art Institute and soon after became connected with the Ferus Gallery group, which also included artists such as Robert Irwin, Edward Moses, Ken Price, and Edward Kienholz.2 Ruscha’s work often documents urban landscapes, which “leave us to question the definitions of the boundaries between ‘documentary’ and ‘conceptual’ art, and the relationship of Pop art to both of them.”3
Footnotes
2 “Biography.” Ed Ruscha Official Website. Web. 3 December 2008. View website
3 Neal Benezra and Kerry Brougher. “Sixteen (and Counting): Ed Ruscha’s Books.” Ed Ruscha. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2000. (185)
Other books in special collections by this author
Title |
4 x 6: Zeichnungen von Edward Ruscha |
Publication |
Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1986 |
Library Call # |
N7433.4.R87 F6 1986 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
74p.: col. ill.; 24cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Text by Marianne Stockebrand in English and German. |
Title |
Babycakes with Weights |
Publication |
S.l: Ruscha, 1970 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R85 1970 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
23 leaves of plates: all ill.; 19cm |
Title |
Beyond Hell |
| author | Stanley Cohen |
| artist | Edward Ruscha |
Publication |
Atlanta, GA: Steam Press, 1922 |
Library Call # |
PS3553.O432 B49 1992 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
56 leaves: ill.; 29cm |
Colophon |
A special edition of sixty copies is signed by both author and artist. This limited letterpress printing is… printed on Rives Heavy White, a French mould made paper. Drawings… are printed four-color process lithography and hand tipped into the volume. The book is sewn and bound in Dutch Brillianta. An additional fifteen presentation copies, signed and numbered I-XV, are similarly printed and reserved by artist, author, and publisher. Five hundred copies comprise the first printing of the trade edition. They are printed…on Mohawk Superfine paper. Copy no. 58/60. DLC. |
Title |
Business Cards |
| authors | Billy Bengston and Edward Ruscha |
Publication |
S.l: s.n., 1968 |
Library Call # |
TR654.R8 B3 1968 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
29p.: ill; 23cm |
Colophon/Notes |
First e. |
Title |
Collaboration Edward Ruscha |
Publication |
Zürich: Parkett-Verlag, 1988 |
Library Call # |
N7433.4.R87 C64 1988 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
212p.: ill (some col.); 26cm |
Colophon/Notes |
In German and English. A singled issue of the Swiss art periodical “Parkett.” This issue is devoted to Edward Ruscha. |
Title |
Colored People |
Publication |
S.l: s.n., 1972 |
Library Call # |
N7433.4.R87 A4 1972 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
31p.: all col. ill.; 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
15 offset reproductions of photographs of native California cactus, printed in four colors on Flocote Enamel paper. |
Title |
Crackers |
Publication |
Hollywood, CA.: Heavy Industries, 1969 |
Library Call # |
TR148 .R85 1969 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. (chiefly illus.) 23cm |
Colophon/Notes |
The photographs illustrate the story “How to derive the maximum enjoyment from crackers,” by Mason Williams. |
Title |
Dutch Details |
Publication |
S.l.: Octopus Foundation, 1971 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R87 1971 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
2, 10 fold. Leaves of plates: ill.; 12 x 38cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Text in English and Dutch. A publication of the Octopus Foundation within the framework of Sonsbeek 71. |
Title |
Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper |
Publication |
London: Anthony d’Ofay, 1998 |
Library Call # |
ND237.R74 A43 1998 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
47p.: ill. (some col.); 28cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Catalog of the exhibition at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Dering Street, London, June 26 to July 30, 1998. |
Title |
Ed Ruscha: Tentoonstelling Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Prentenkabinet, 26 maart-9 mei 1976 |
Publication |
S.l.: s.n., 1976. Amsterdam: Stadsdrukkerij van Amsterdam |
Library Call # |
N6537.R95 A62 1976 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
16p.: chiefly ill.; 21 x 28cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Catalog of the exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. |
Title |
A Few Palm Trees |
Publication |
Hollywood, CA.: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R88 1971 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. (unpaged): chiefly illus.; 18cm |
Title |
Hard Light |
Publication |
Los Angeles, CA.: E. Ruscha and L. Weiner, 1978 |
Library Call # |
N7433.4.R78 H28 1978 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
115p.: chiefly ill.; 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Presents a story in nine chapters told primarily by pictures. Color illustrations on outer front and back covers. |
| Colophon: | In order of appearance: Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller. |
Title |
Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass |
Publication |
S.l.: s.n., 1968, 1976 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R8750 1976 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
21 leaves: col. ill. 19cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Some leaves blank. | Colophon: |
Second edition, 2000 copies, 1976. |
Title |
Real Estate Opportunities |
Publication |
S.l: s.n., 1970 |
Library Call # |
TR650 .R8 1970 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
23 leaves: chiefly ill.; 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
25 offset printed reproductions of photographs on 80lb. white Vicksburg Vellum paper. |
Title |
Records |
Publication |
Hollywood, CA.: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R874 1971 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. unpaged of illus. 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Photos by Jerry McMillian. |
Title |
Royal Road Test |
Authors |
Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha, and Patrick Blackwell |
Publication |
Los Angeles: n.p., 1967 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R874 1971 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. unpaged chiefly illus. 24cm |
Title |
Some Los Angeles Apartments |
Publication |
Los Angeles: E. Ruscha, 1970, 1965 |
Library Call # |
N7433.4.R78 S65 1970 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
44 p.: all ill.; 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
2nd edition. Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. |
Colophon: |
First edition, 700 copies, 1965. Second edition, 3000 copies, 1970. |
Title |
Thirty Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles view artist book webpage |
Publication |
S.l.: s.n., 1967 |
Library Call # |
TR654 .R8780 1967 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
43p.: all ill.; 26cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Photographs: Art Alanis |
Title |
Twenty Six Gasoline Stations view artist book webpage |
Publication |
Alhambra, CA.: Cunningham Press, 1962, 1969 |
Library Call # |
TL153 .R8 1969 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. (chiefly illus.) 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
First edition, 1963, 400 numbered copies. |
Title |
Various Small Fires and Milk |
Publication |
Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1964, 1970. |
Library Call # |
TR650 .R77 1970 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. of illus. 18cm |
Colophon/Notes |
2nd edition. |
Colophon |
Second edition, 3000 copies, 1970. |
References and Links
Ed Ruscha Official Website. Web. 3 December 2008. View website
“Edward Ruscha.” The Museum of Modern Art Collection. View website
Benezra, Neal and Kerry Brougher. Ed Ruscha. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2000. View Reed library catalog record
Ruscha, Edward. Alexandra Schwartz, Ed. Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002. View Reed library catalog record
Wolf, Sylvia. Ed Ruscha and Photography. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Göttingen: Steidl, 2004. View Reed library catalog record