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“Something Else”: Ed Ruscha's Photographic Books

“Something Else”: Ed Ruscha's Photographic Books “Something Else”: Ed Ruscha’s Photographic Books KEVIN HATCH My books were very hot items—it was hot art to me, almost too hot to handle. I liked the idea that my books would disorient, and it seemed to happen that people would look at them and the books would look very familiar, yet they were like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I felt they were very powerful statements, maybe the most powerful things I’ve done. I’m kind of considered part of the mainstream of art history now. My work is not revolutionary, but the works that I did were, at that point, a can opener that got into something else. My books were art objects to me, but a lot of people chose not to even accept them, and for this reason they have always been underground—and still are.1 —Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha’s “bookworks,” as Clive Phillpot termed them, are indeed wolves in sheep’s clothing, complex and refractory objects that have confounded repeated attempts at categorization.2 Familiar with Ruscha’s coolly ironic word paintings, and unsure how else to account for his puzzling little books, early critics classified them as West Coast Pop.3 Others later linked them to the tradition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png October MIT Press

“Something Else”: Ed Ruscha's Photographic Books

Hatch, Kevin
October , Volume Winter 2005 (111) – Jan 1, 2005
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MIT Press
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© 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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0162-2870
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1536-013X
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10.1162/0162287053148102
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“Something Else”: Ed Ruscha’s Photographic Books KEVIN HATCH My books were very hot items—it was hot art to me, almost too hot to handle. I liked the idea that my books would disorient, and it seemed to happen that people would look at them and the books would look very familiar, yet they were like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I felt they were very powerful statements, maybe the most powerful things I’ve done. I’m kind of considered part of the mainstream of art history now. My work is not revolutionary, but the works that I did were, at that point, a can opener that got into something else. My books were art objects to me, but a lot of people chose not to even accept them, and for this reason they have always been underground—and still are.1 —Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha’s “bookworks,” as Clive Phillpot termed them, are indeed wolves in sheep’s clothing, complex and refractory objects that have confounded repeated attempts at categorization.2 Familiar with Ruscha’s coolly ironic word paintings, and unsure how else to account for his puzzling little books, early critics classified them as West Coast Pop.3 Others later linked them to the tradition

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Published: Jan 1, 2005

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