Ed Ruscha: Extremes and In-betweens
Ben Eastham author Yve-Alain Bois author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications
Published:5th Sep '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
These powerful works, all completed in 2016, are reproduced in this stunning new volume in beautiful colour-saturated plates to which black and white installation photos, as well as studio shots, provide a striking contrast. New texts by art historian Yve-Alain Bois and art critic Ben Eastham situate these new works within Ruscha s larger oeuvre and provide detailed insight into particular works. In the restrained paintings that comprise Extremes and In-Betweens, Ruscha sets into motion a dynamic interplay of words and their meanings in ascending and descending shifts of scale and tone that echo the relation of macrocosm to microcosm. Although his images are undeniably rooted in the signs and symbols of American reality closely observed, his elegant and laconic art speaks to more complex and widespread issues regarding the appearance, feel, and function of the world and our tenuous and transient place within it.
"Yve-Alain Bois and Ben Eastham’s Ed Ruscha (Rizzoli) puts us in a typographical trance."
—Vanity Fair
ISBN: 9780847860845
Dimensions: 279mm x 315mm x 15mm
Weight: 907g
88 pages