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Title: They Called Her Styrene, Etc. by Ed Ruscha ISBN: 0-7148-4011-4 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice Little Book
Comment: I gave this one to a friend who never heard of Ruscha before. He loved it. It's a little unpretentious experience through Ruscha's world. It's not that kind of 7-colour-printed-on-coated-expensive-paper, but works very well as good entertainment and a valid introduction to west coast fine artists. Worth its price.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must for all Ruscha fans/influencees
Comment: Funny, but it seems as though every time a new Ed Ruscha book gets released, it then becomes the standard "must-have" edition. In my opinion, this is an excellent book for the price, even if only for a single viewing. What I mean is this: it's more like an object than a book, due to its small area (but thick volume), and lack of publisher information distraction - the absolute first page blatently plunges you into the art immediately. It will take the average art fan a good two hours alone viewing each plate at a contemplative pace. I have had two art shows myself, and Ed's work is by far my closest influence, so I am heavily biased. This book lacks the token interview with the artist, and also his other forms of work (notably the parking lot photography series, which is a sheer delight in its own right), but for the sake of the design, perhaps the book as it is says all it has to say (no pun intended, if you're familiar with his works). Part of the fun, though, with viewing these kinds of Ed's works, is reading his titles and materials used, as they are equally insightful; yes, I miss that. But the average or novice art buff wouldn't even notice it missing. All things considered, this is a great little form of entertainment all contemporary art lovers should own.
Rating: 4
Summary: very nice
Comment: My adventures with They Called Her Styrene began on a subway ride in Boston earlier this month. I saw an older woman flipping through a book, each page containting a picture with a few words written on it. I started looking with her as as she flipped through it. She flipped through it for about 20 minutes, and then my stop was next. I was worried I would never know the title of this book, and, being too shy to ask, would leave the train and be unsatisfied. Luckily, just as the train stopped, she closed the book and I saw the title.
I bought it shortly afterwards.
I already described it- it's a book of pictures with words across them. I enjoy it very much. As you sit and thumb through all of the pages, each word or group of words, combined with the colors on the background, conjur all sorts of thought and feelings inside you.
For me, it serves very well to just sit and thumb through it, looking at all the pictures and letting my mind wander as the book prescribes.
Its wonderful.
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Title: Ed Ruscha by Richard D. Marshall ISBN: 0714839086 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (October Books) by Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz ISBN: 0262182203 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Edward Ruscha : Editions 1959-1999 by Siri Engberg, Edward Ruscha, Clive Phillpot, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum ISBN: 0935640606 Publisher: Walker Art Center Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Ed Ruscha by Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Ed Ruscha ISBN: 3908247330 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: 15 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface by Lars Muller ISBN: 3907044878 Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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