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A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

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The Great American Pop Art Store : Multiples of the Sixties
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
  • 116 pp.
  • edition size 3000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0936270365

The Great American Pop Art Store : Multiples of the Sixties

[First Edition]

Constance W. Glenn, Linda Albright-Tomb, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Karen L. Kleinfelder, Allan D''Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Wayne Thiebaud, Ernest Trova, Andy Warhol, Roberty Watts, Tom Wesselmann

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, August 26 - October 26, 1997. Traveled to The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 22, 1997 - February 22, 1998; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, March 25 - May 31, 1998; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, June 27 - August 23, 1998; Frederick R. ... [details]

$20.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of cover edges. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39784]
The Great American Pop Art Store : Multiples of the Sixties
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
  • 116 pp.
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0936270365

The Great American Pop Art Store : Multiples of the Sixties

[Second Edition]

Constance W. Glenn, Linda Albright-Tomb, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Karen L. Kleinfelder, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Wayne Thiebaud, Ernest Trova, Andy Warhol, Roberty Watts, Tom Wesselmann

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, August 26 - October 26, 1997. Traveled to The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 22, 1997 - February 22, 1998; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, March 25 - May 31, 1998; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, June 27 - August 23, 1998; Frederick R. ... [details]

$20.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of cover edges. "Carley 3/2000" written in black ink on title page. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 5154]
Exene Cervenka : America the Beautiful
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 15.4 x 21.9 cm.
  • [32] pp.
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Exene Cervenka : America the Beautiful

Exene Cervenka, Kristine McKenna, Michael Duncan

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Santa Monica Museum of Art, September 17 - November 26, 2005. Curated by Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan. [details]

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press,
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$5.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and cover edges and light scratching of covers. Gift inscription in ink on title page, otherwise covers and content clean.
[Object # 5334]
Picturing Ed : Jerry McMillan's Photographs of Ed Ruscha 1958 - 1972
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 17.8 x 13.9 cm.
  • 45 pp.
  • edition size 1200
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1889195529

Picturing Ed : Jerry McMillan's Photographs of Ed Ruscha 1958 - 1972

[Smart Art Press, Vol. IX, No. 83]

Edward Ruscha, Jerry McMillan

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 22 - June 26, 2004. Includes a text by McMillan about Ed Ruscha and an exhibition checklist. [details]

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Appendices, Illustrations and Notes
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 20 x 13.5 cm.
  • 54 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1889195359

Appendices, Illustrations and Notes

Terence Gower, Mónica de la Torre

"This surreal and funny artist''s book is a collaboration between conceptual artist Terence Gower and writer Mónica de la Torre, who have created an anthology of meaningless book-marketing blurbs, reviews of dubious exhibitions, evil-spirited notes by editors, and obsessional letters addressed to a psychiatrist. ... [details]

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press,
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$10.00
Condition:  Very Good. 1.6 cm., 1 cm. and 2 mm. of soiling to recto. Light rubbing of spine edge and of verso. 5 cm. of soiling to text block edge and 9 mm. of soiling to inside of recto. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 37492]
Blinky : The Friendly Hen
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 13.9 x 21.6 cm.
  • [26] pp.
  • edition size 2000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0964642670

Blinky : The Friendly Hen

[Second Edition]

Jeffrey Vallance

Artist's book by Jeffrey Vallance that tells the story, in text and photographs, of Vallance's purchase of a frozen chicken at the supermarket, his naming it Blinky, his purchasing a casket for it, and it's burial at the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery where to this day you can visit it's grave and see Blinky's headstone. ... [details]

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press,
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$45.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Soiling of covers including 1.4 cm., 1 mm. and 2 mm. stains on recto. 6 mm. stain to text block edge. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 7652]
Extra Art : A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960 - 1999
  • catalogue raisonné
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24 x 28.5 cm.
  • 199 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1889195480

Extra Art : A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960 - 1999

Steven Leiber, Ralph Rugoff, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Todd Alden, Ted Purves

Steven Leiber was a genius, and this book - full of years of meticulous research and study - proves it. Packed full of ephemera by 100s of artists, Leiber catalogues, documents and stories the path this printed matter, often casually regarded as discarded matter [or discardable matter]. ... [details]

$350.00
Condition:  New. In publisher's shrink wrap. Unopened as issued. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required.
[Object # 24382]
Dreams
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.3 x 15 cm.
  • [272] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0964642603

Dreams

[First Edition]

Jim Shaw

Engrossing artist's book of drawings and texts illustrating Shaw's dreams from 1987 through 1995, drawn in 1993 through 1995. [details]

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press,
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$26.49
Condition:  Used
Dreams
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.3 x 15 cm.
  • [272] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780964642607

Dreams

[Second Printing]

Jim Shaw

Engrossing artist's book of drawings and texts illustrating Shaw's dreams from 1987 through 1995, drawn in 1993 through 1995. [details]

$26.49
Condition:  Used
Forming : The Early Days of L.A. Punk
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 19.6 x 19.6 cm.
  • 96 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1889195375

Forming : The Early Days of L.A. Punk

Exene Cervenka, Susan Martin, Holly Myers, Pilar Perez, Viggo Mortensen, John Roecker, Claude Bessy, Chris Morris, Kristine McKenna, Sean Carrillo, John Doe, Edward Colver, Diane Gamboa, Frank Gargani, Jenny Lens, Gary Leonard, Jonathan Louie, Melanie Nissen, Donna Santisi, Ann Summa, Lou Beach, Richard Duardo, Raymond Pettibon

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held April 10 - June 5, 1999. Essays by Claude Bessy, Chris Morris, Kristine McKenna, Sean Carrillo, Exene Cervenka and John Doe. Documentary photography by Edward Colver, Diane Gamboa, Frank Gargani, Jenny Lens, Gary Leonard, Jonathan Louie, Melanie Nissen, Donna Santisi and Ann Summa. ... [details]

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press,
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$30.00
Condition:  Used
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