The Sunset Strip

Artist Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

Publisher Edward Ruscha, Los Angeles, 1966

Date1966

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 7 5/16 in. (186 mm); W: 5 13/16 in. (147 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Book: H: 7 1/8 in. (181 mm); W: 5 11/16 in. (144 mm); Depth: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Page: H: 7 in. (178 mm); W: 5 1/2 in. (140 mm).
Sheet: H: 7 in. (178 mm); W: 295 1/8 in. (7496 mm).

MediumReproductions: photolithography of photographs on coated white wove paper. Text: photolithography (typeface: Melior).

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.953

Not on View

Label TextEdward Ruscha (pronounced Roo-SHAY) is an influential voice in American painting and one of the most significant contemporary American graphic artists. He created a new paradigm for interactions between the artist, the book, and the audience beginning in 1962 when he published small, inexpensive paperbacks that constructed a linear sequence of photo images of ordinary places and things—like every building along the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Important in the production of many of his books is his ability to interpret the sprawl of L. A., evoking presence and absence through photographic repetition. It is fitting that the sequencing of the images is reminiscent of cinematic film.Published Referencescf. Drucker, Johanna, The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, New York, 1995, p. 178