Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Artist Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

Publisher The Cunningham Press

Date1963, 3rd ed. 1969

DimensionsClosed: 7 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 3/16 in. (17.9 × 14 × 0.5 cm)

Medium48 pages, 26 black & white photolithograph illus; glassine dust jacket.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of S. Bradley Gillaugh

Object number

2016.25

Not on View

DescriptionArtist's book

Label TextAssociated with the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s, Ed Ruscha (pronounced Roo-SHAY) wrote about his seminal artist’s book Twentysix Gasoline Stations: “I realized that for the first time this book had an inexplicable thing I was looking for, and that was a kind of a “Huh?” That‘s what I’ve always worked around. All it is is a device to disarm somebody with my particular message.”Published ReferencesSharp, Willoughby, ‘“… a kind of a Huh?” An Interview with Edward Ruscha’, in Avalanche, no.7, Winter/Spring, 1973, p.30.

Phillpot, Clive, ‘Twentysix Gasoline Stations that Shook the World: The Rise and Fall of Cheap Booklets as Art’, in Art Libraries Journal, vol.19, no.1, 1993, pp.4–13.

Richards, Mary, ER: Ed Ruscha, London, Tate Publishing, 2008, pp.30–5.