Projection-Conférence par Mela Dávila Freire

In the film The Books of Ed Ruscha (23’), directed in 1969 by Ed Ruscha (1937- ) himself, some of his iconic conceptual books are leafed through, unfolded and read by his accomplice Mason Williams. The books Twentysix Gas Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), or Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) reveal how the Californian visual artist invests the book medium to construct a photographic narrative of the everyday and banality of modern urban life in the United States, and to disseminate widely, democratically, an artistic work. A pioneering and seminal practice in the history of the artists’ books, as the researcher and art historian Mela Dávila Freire will analyze it following the screening.