Book cover for "Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength" featuring a textured gray and black abstract pattern with white text. Published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

A photograph of an open book showing a white and black stylized cloudy sky with overlayed white text reading "INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SLEEP"

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Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength

Description

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the completion of Ed Ruscha’s Industrial Strength Sleep, a 23-foot by 9-foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and based on his 1989 painting of the same name.

In his introductory essay, curator Paul Schimmel explains the artist’s process: “Though Ruscha has consistently pushed the boundaries of his own iconography, which typically comprises concrete words and phrases, it is in fact his range of materials and processes that has characterized the ever-changing and restless nature of his practice.”

Published 2008 by The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Hardcover, 59 pages
10.5 inches x 12.25 inches
Catalogue Designer: Takaaki Matsumoto

Exhibition catalogue features essays by FWM Artistic Director Marion Boulton Stroud, Guest Curator Paul Schimmel, and Thomas Crow, a contributing editor of Artforum and the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

ISBN: 978-0-9724556-4-0

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