Twentysix gasoline stations first edition

Used - Softcover. From United Kingdom to U. With 26 black-and-white offset photographic illustrations 3 double-spread. A second edition appeared in , and a third edition in The photographs are not reproduced in a perfect linear sequence, however, with five photographs reproduced out of order.

Taken from the highway and often including large areas of forecourt or road, the shots appear to be simply factual records of the petrol stations. Harvard dissertation , p. This copy also one of approximately 50 copies of the first edition housed in the original black paper-covered slipcase. II, p. White wrappers, with title printed in red on front cover and spine.

Glassine dust jacket. With original black paper-covered slipcase only approximately 50 copies of the first edition were issued with the slipcase. Publication Date: First Edition. Used - Softcover Condition: Fine. Condition: Fine. All First Editions. Glossy printed plain white wraps with original glassine jjackets. The three glassine jackets are all original and virtually unscathed, with the exception being a Lilliputian hole along the spine edge between the top and middle lines of text.

The jackets exhibit some age-toning and offsetting from where set on top of each other for some period of time as if in a display. The superior condition of these three books cannot be overstated. From what can be pieced together, this group was likely sent to a New York Art Book store as part of a marketing campaign to sell the books, which originally did not sell well for Ruscha.

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Twentysix Gasoline Stations , a modest publication consisting of black and white photographs with captions, is an iconic artist book. Clive Phillpot, writer, curator and former Director of the Library at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, observes that the photographs are not reproduced in a linear sequence, with five photographs out of order.

Each opening of the book reveals one or two photographs in varying but repeated layouts, with the photographs set in relatively large areas of white space. The front cover has the title printed in red as three separate lines, the stark brightness of the design muted by the wrap around protective cover. The book is the first in a sequence of photographic artist books by Ruscha.

Twentysix Gasoline Stations was first published in although the title page states in an edition of numbered copies. It was subsequently republished in two unnumbered editions. Johanna Drucker, writer, critic and book artist, observed:.

Thirty years later, with a quarter of a century of mainstream art world activity between, the aspect of shock-effect and humor has diminished somewhat. The artist closely supervised the design and printing of the book. When I was in Oklahoma I got a brainstorm in the middle of the night to do this little book called Twentysix Gasoline Stations.