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Up for your consideration is a brand new, sealed, copy of the exceedingly hard to find Double Americanisms by Ed Ruscha, the catalog accompanying a show of his recent work in Austria in 2018. As far as I can tell, the book consists solely of images of his new/recent work- there is no text. The title appears on the spine without mention of the artist's name, but there is no doubt the work is by Ed Ruscha and only Ed Ruscha throughout. This beautiful book, designed by the artist, contains some gatefolds and even double gatefolds in a compact sized hardcover. Ed Ruscha in full effect at the height of his formidable power. The new, sealed copy for sale is shown in Pics #2, 3 and 4, and I've included a other few photos of the works included in the others from my opened personal copy. 124 pages, 205 x 380 mm.
From the publisher-
"DOUBLE AMERICANISMS shows a new series of linguistic paintings informed by Ed Ruscha's memories of Oklahoma City, where he spent his teenage years, and the city's distinctive slang: used parchment drumheads are inscribed with locutions whose shared feature is the use of a double negation - "I Ain't Telling You No Lie," for example, and "I Can't Find My Keys Nowhere." Expressions like these remind him of the way people around him used to speak, and rather than disavowing them as incorrect English, he picks up on them and transforms them into art. The inexorable passage of time is a recurrent theme in Ruscha's work, and by reminiscing about his upbringing, he also emphasizes the continuity between his younger self and who he is now - as the artist sees it, he really has not changed much at all.Centerpiece of the book is a series of six large-format pictures - digital reproductions of three paintings (again, true to side and laterally reversed) showing the star-spangled banner in different conditions that Ruscha created between 1985 and 2017. In the first pair of pictures (after Mother's Boys, 1987), the American flag proudly waves before a radiant blue sky, but in the second set (after Untitled [American flag on pole], 1985), dark clouds roll in, and in the third (after Our Flag, 2017), a tattered banner before a black backdrop betokens a disastrous outcome."
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