Lot 1824
E. Ruscha, Every building on the sunset strip. Los Angeles 1966.
Estimate
€ 2.000
Starting Price
€ 1.500
Lot:
1824
Category:
Illustrated Books, portfolios and art literature after 1945
EDWARD RUSCHA
Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966. Leporello mit Offset-Abbildungen. Los Angeles: Selbstverlag 1966 [r. 1971]. 17,8 x 14 cm. (unfolded 17,8 x 721,3 cm). 2 leaves title page and copyright notice, 51 leaves Original wrapping made of thin cardboard with silver titles on the spine and front cover, in the original slipcase lined with silver Mylar film.
(Spine lightly tanned and scuffed. Slipcase bumped on the left and with some minor tears to the edges.)
One of 5,000 copies of the second edition. — Dickel, p. 11. Engbert / Phillpot, B 4 and p. 71. — When unfolded, the panorama from the second edition is 7.3 cm shorter than that of the first, as the artist decided to omit a small folded flap that was part of the first edition. - The Sunset Strip is depicted from a driver’s perspective: “The two opposing image strips represent the boulevard’s outward and return journeys. The photographs are mounted so closely together—sewn together, as it were—that the depicted scene merges into a flat surface, and any sense of spatial depth is eliminated ... The buildings … lose their sense of space; just as when driving, the viewer’s gaze falls only on the pictorial facades along the roadside, designed for quick recognition. The accordion-like unfolding of the book counteracts the serial monotony of this (house-of-cards) architecture. ... Ruscha utilized the specific artistic possibilities offered by the combination of the two media—photography and the book—to draw attention to both the fragmentary nature of modern perception and the similarity—not sameness—of what is perceived. Numerous buildings from the streets of Los Angeles later also appear as motifs in his paintings ...” (Dickel).
Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966. Leporello mit Offset-Abbildungen. Los Angeles: Selbstverlag 1966 [r. 1971]. 17,8 x 14 cm. (unfolded 17,8 x 721,3 cm). 2 leaves title page and copyright notice, 51 leaves Original wrapping made of thin cardboard with silver titles on the spine and front cover, in the original slipcase lined with silver Mylar film.
(Spine lightly tanned and scuffed. Slipcase bumped on the left and with some minor tears to the edges.)
One of 5,000 copies of the second edition. — Dickel, p. 11. Engbert / Phillpot, B 4 and p. 71. — When unfolded, the panorama from the second edition is 7.3 cm shorter than that of the first, as the artist decided to omit a small folded flap that was part of the first edition. - The Sunset Strip is depicted from a driver’s perspective: “The two opposing image strips represent the boulevard’s outward and return journeys. The photographs are mounted so closely together—sewn together, as it were—that the depicted scene merges into a flat surface, and any sense of spatial depth is eliminated ... The buildings … lose their sense of space; just as when driving, the viewer’s gaze falls only on the pictorial facades along the roadside, designed for quick recognition. The accordion-like unfolding of the book counteracts the serial monotony of this (house-of-cards) architecture. ... Ruscha utilized the specific artistic possibilities offered by the combination of the two media—photography and the book—to draw attention to both the fragmentary nature of modern perception and the similarity—not sameness—of what is perceived. Numerous buildings from the streets of Los Angeles later also appear as motifs in his paintings ...” (Dickel).