Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Published by Alhambra, California National Excelsior Press April 1963, 1963
- Used
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United KingdomVoewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA
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Condition: Used
£ 6,750.00
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First edition, number 209 of 400. Unpaginated, pp [48]. Original printed wrappers and with the original (and rare) glassine wrapper. Some slight spotting to edges of covers and a short blue biro mark to glassine on lower cover and a small spot on upper cover but overall in very good condition and Toning to edges and spine, crease to lower cover, head and foot of spine very slight chipped but overall in very good condition. Internally near fine. Twentysix Gasoline Stations is Ruscha's first book and widely regarded as the first modern artist's books. It consists simply of black and white photographs and brief captions stating the name of the petrol company and location of the station. The book's origins lie in Ruscha's long drives from California to his parents' home in Oklahoma. It sounds dull and it is meant to be, combining as Johanna Drucker says, "the literalness of early California pop art with a flat-footed photographic aesthetic informed by minimalist notions of repetitive sequence and seriality". Ruscha himself explained how he wanted "absolutely neutral material. My pictures are not that interesting.my book is more like a collection of readymades". He wanted, he said, "to be the Henry Ford of book making". This car imagery, combined with the gasoline stations have led some to see the book as a photographic version of a road movie - and Ruscha certainly draws on the gas station's central place in American popular culture. But Ruscha, brought up a Catholic, has lent his support to a more serious reading which sees his journey home through these stations as a form of religious journey, a modern, secular Stations of the Cross: "there is a connection between my work and my experience with religious icons". This sense of a pilgrimage with a defined endpoint is reinforced by Ruscha's decision to use as his last image a gasoline station owned by Fina.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Twentysix Gasoline Stations
- Author
- RUSCHA, Edward
- Publisher
- Alhambra, California National Excelsior Press April 1963
- Publication year
- 1963
Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA
Holt, United Kingdom
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Voewood Rare Books is a secondhand and Antiquarian Book business owned by Simon Finch. We operate from Voewood, a unique and extraordinary Arts and Crafts house described by Pevsner as "violently idiosyncratic". We operate online and through book fairs of which we do between five and eight a year. We are also open by appointment (contact andrew@voewood.com or 01263 715539) Our website is being constantly enlarged and developed so do keep in touch with us, join our mailing list or visit (virtually or actually) our eclectic collection of unique and rare books. We are members of the ABA, ILAB and PBFA.…
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Simon Finch Rare Books Limited
Simon Finch Rare Books Limited (trading as Voewood Rare Book, s) The Coach House, Voewood, Cromer Road,
Holt, United Kingdom NR25 6QS
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