Babycakes with Weights
Edward Ruscha
[Calif.?]: Ruscha, c1970
N7433.4 .R951 B11 1970 ARTLCKS

Business Cards
by Billy Al Bengston and Edward Ruscha
[Venice, Calif.] : Billy Al Bengston & Edward Ruscha, Inc., 1968
N7433.4 .B46 A4 1968 ARTLCKS

Dutch Details
Edward Ruscha
[s. l.] : Stichting Octopus, 1971
N6537 .R8 A325 1971 ARTLCKM

Records
[by] Ed Ruscha
[Hollywood, Calif., Heavy Industry Publications] 1971
N7433.4 .R87 A4 1971A ARTLCKS

Twenty Six Gasoline Stations
[photographs by] Edward Ruscha
Alhambra, Calif. : Cunningham Press, 1962, [i. e. 1967]
TR647 .R87 T84 1967 ARTLCKS

These five artists’ books by Ed Ruscha document an important segment (1960s through the early 1970s) of this widely acclaimed conceptual artist’s career. Twenty Six Gasoline Stations (1962), created in a style contrary to livres de luxe (limited-edition luxury books) produced by artists earlier in the century, paved the way for the consideration and acceptance of mass-produced artists’ books as a genre. Its straightforward series of black and white photographs documenting gas stations on Route 40 between Los Angeles and Oklahoma, is somewhat replicated in the equally characteristic depictions of vinyl records and their covers in Records (1971), babies and a variety of cakes and snack foods in Babycakes with Weights (1970), bridges in Dutch Details (1971), and business cards and photographs of people socializing in Business Cards (1968).