Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha

by Phil Taylor and Mark Rawlinson

Riffs, revisions, knockoffs, and homages: artists pay tribute to Ed Ruscha's famous photo-conceptual small books.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018772
• ISBN13: 9780262018777
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher