{"product_id":"ed-ruscha-and-some-los-angeles-apartments-9781606061381","title":"Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments","description":"Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s--such as \u003ci\u003eTwentysix Gasoline Stations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Building on the Sunset Strip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSome Los Angeles Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThirtyfour Parking Lots\u003c\/i\u003e--are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city's functional architecture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis publication features thirty-eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist's thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruscha's photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eug ne Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEd Ruscha and \"Some Los Angeles Apartments\" \u003c\/i\u003eaccompanies an exhibition titled In Focus: Ed Ruscha, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to September 29, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Paul Getty Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606061381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 8.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Virginia Heckert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661650358428,"sku":"9781606061381","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cbcf2402-e1b5-47e4-9baf-e2be0b6e073a.jpg?v=1603899934","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ed-ruscha-and-some-los-angeles-apartments-9781606061381","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}