The Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings of Ed Ruscha is a six-volume series of books co-published by Steidl and Gagosian Gallery. This is the second volume, which contains entries on 178 paintings completed between 1971 and 1982 - from the artist's crisis at the onset of the seventies, when he quits painting pictures, to his first major museum retrospective, which opened in March 1982 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The catalogue includes a comprehensive exhibition history, bibliography and biographical chronology, as well as a preface by the editor Robert Dean, an essay by UCLA film historian Peter Wollen examining Ruscha's use of color as it relates to his use of language, and an essay by the late Reyner Banham. Co-published with Gagosian Gallery, New York/Beverly Hills

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Ed Ruscha wurde 1937 in Omaha/Nebraska geboren und wuchs in Oklahoma auf. Er studierte am Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Sein Werk wird weltweit ausgestellt und ist Bestandteil vieler bedeutender Museen und Sammlungen. Ed Ruscha, der an vier documenta-Ausstellungen teilnahm, ist Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Er lebt in Los Angeles. Bei Steidl erschienen zahlreiche Bücher von ihm, zuletzt Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings Vol. 5.