Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1980. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's stiff illustrated paper wraps, french flaps.
Signed first edition monograph of the drawings of LA-based multimedia artist Ed Ruscha. Designed by Ruscha himself, this catalog comprises eighty-four drawings, some created with unusual media such as spinach, carrots, and gunpowder, alongside a poem by longtime New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl. A major champion of Ruscha, Schjeldahl once described him as "one of the four most influential artists to have emerged in the 1960s." Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates (two folding). Issued simultaneously in hardcover and paperback (as here). Signed by Ruscha and dated 1980 in black ink to front endpaper. Fine. Item #13439
$275.00