ED RUSCHA, AMERICAN, WORLD-FAMOUS ACCLAIMED POP AND CONCEPTUAL ARTIST FROM CALIFORNIA

THIRTY-FOUR PARKING LOTS IN LOS ANGELES. 1967.  BLACK OFFSET PRINTING ON WHITE PAPER. 10 X 8 X 1/8 IN.

SOFT COVER WITH TITLE PRINTED ON COVER AND SPINE.

48 PAGES CONTAINING 34 B/W PHOTOS WITH CAPTIONS, PLUS PLAIN ENDPAPERS

SELF - PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST. 

THIS IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ANY RUSHCA COLLECTOR AS IT CAN BECOME PART OF A SET WITH HIS OTHER ARTIST'S BOOKS SUCH AS TWENTY-SIX GASOLINE STATIONS, SOME LOS ANGELES APARTMENTS, NINE SWIMMING POOLS, AND EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP. 

AS MOST OF YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT REALLY A BOOK, IT IS A WORK OF ART.

THE TATE MODERN IN LONDON DESCRIBES RUSCHA as "one of the world’s most important artists with a career spanning six decades from the early 1960s until the present day."

He was also very influential to the development of conceptual art through his depiction of words and phrases, and his books of deadpan photographs characterised by their low-key humour depicting the banality of everyday life. Ruscha's parking lots are like Warhol's soup cans.