Research Catalog

Title

Ed Ruscha : industrial strength / curated by Paul Schimmel ; essay by Thomas Crow ; catalogue designed by Takaaki Matsumoto.

Author

Ruscha, Edward

Publication

Philadelphia : Fabric Workshop and Museum, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schimmel, Paul
• Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
• Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Description

59 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

"Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength is published on the occasion of the artist's completion of "Industrial Strength Sleep," a 23-foot by 9-foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and based on his 1989 painting of the same name... The piece, which took three years to complete, was produced at Flanders Tapestries in Wielsbeke, Belgium... Over the course of his nearly 40-year career, Ruscha, who was the United States representative at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, has consistently used the expansive landscape of Los Angeles--where he has lived and worked since the late 1950s--in his paintings as a backdrop for the often humorous vernacular phrases with which he communicates a particular urban experience."--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Industrial strength

Subject

Ruscha, Edward > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Issued in connection with an exhibition held March-May, 2008, Fabric Workshop and Museum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface and acknowledgments / Paul Schimmel -- Introduction / Marion Boulton Stroud -- Practical grandeur: concerning a tapestry by Ed Ruscha / Thomas Crow

ISBN

• 9780972455640
• 0972455647

LCCN

^^2008002141

OCLC

• 191024074
• SCSB-10355022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library