Hand Showing Book Cover
<p>Groundbreaking conceptual artist Ed Ruscha became known for photobooks depicting mundane American subjects in series: palm trees, swimming pools, parking lots. Here a hand, belonging to fellow artist Joe Goode, holds the first of these books, <em>Twentysix Gasoline Stations</em> (1963), whose title mimics Ruscha’s deadpan “what you see is what you get” approach to image making. Even though the volume is slim and filled with two-dimensional images, this photograph brings out its sculptural quality.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.1 × 19.5 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Ed Ruscha
Artist
Painting
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Ed Ruscha
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.1 × 19.5 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1963-104856
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified