{"product_id":"ed-ruscha-catalogue-raisonne-of-the-books-prints-and-photographic-editions-1960-2022-3-volumes","title":"Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Books, Prints, and Photographic Editions 1960–2022 (3 Volumes)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEd Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the \u003cstrong\u003eBooks\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePrints\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003ePhotographic Editions\u003c\/strong\u003e 1960–2022 is Steidl's definitive three-volume survey of Ruscha's work as printmaker, photographer, and maker of artists' books, co-published with Gagosian, New York. Across 864 pages and roughly 1,944 reproductions, catalogue entries compiled by curator Siri Engberg — with essays by Engberg, Ruscha, and artist's-book scholar Clive Phillpot — document every book, print, and photographic edition Ruscha produced between 1960 and 2022, alongside his 1975 text \"The Information Man,\" a bibliography, exhibition history, and photographic workshop archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRuscha's books were never precious objects — Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, the deadpan accordion-folds and cheap offset paper were an argument in themselves: that photography could be inventory before it was art, that a parking lot or a Standard station sign held as much information as a monument. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/EdRuschaCatalogueRaisonneoftheBooks_Prints_andPhotographicEditions1960_2022-14.jpg?v=1788265889\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis catalogue treats that argument with the seriousness it earned decades ago, laying out every cover, every accordion spread, every stray colophon page alongside the prints — lithographs, screenprints, works pulled in gunpowder, blood, Pepto-Bismol, egg yolk — where Ruscha turned single words into landscapes and Los Angeles into a kind of alphabet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/EdRuschaCatalogueRaisonneoftheBooks_Prints_andPhotographicEditions1960_2022-6.jpg?v=1788265889\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSixty-two years of a practice that refused to sit still between mediums, indexed at last with the rigor it was always quietly asking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA reference for anyone who has ever driven the length of Sunset Boulevard and wondered what Ruscha saw that the rest of us drove past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54812615442773,"sku":"ED-RUSH","price":350.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/5016\/0524\/files\/ed-ruscha-catalogue-raisonne-of-the-books-prints-and-photographic-editions-1960-2022-3-volumes-8459537.jpg?v=1788266484","url":"https:\/\/www.tipi-bookshop.be\/products\/ed-ruscha-catalogue-raisonne-of-the-books-prints-and-photographic-editions-1960-2022-3-volumes","provider":"Tipi bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}