Allen Ruppersberg. The Secret of Life and Death. Volume I, 1969-1984. Essay by Howard Singerman
Ruppersberg, Allen. Brown, Julia (editor)
Los Angeles / Santa Barbara. The Museum of Contemporary Art & Black Sparrow Press. 1985
The deluxe edition, published on the occasion of retrospective exhibition, MOCA Los Angeles.
This copy one of a limited edition of 250 numbered examples, handbound in pictorial boards by Earle Gray. This deluxe edition features an artwork / multiple entitled 'Love Me Tender' (which incorporates a primitive electronic 'music box' that plays a version of the Elvis Presley classic when opened - but as usual the battery is long dead).
This copy one of a limited edition of 250 numbered examples, handbound in pictorial boards by Earle Gray. This deluxe edition features an artwork / multiple entitled 'Love Me Tender' (which incorporates a primitive electronic 'music box' that plays a version of the Elvis Presley classic when opened - but as usual the battery is long dead).
pp. 127. 4to. Colour & monochrome illustrations throughout. Essays and seven works by Ruppersberg. Bound-in folder: 'Love Me Tender', which contains five sheets of printed stationary, and eight 9 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. black & white photographic prints, and with the mounted device present. Publisher's boards, complete with plain dust-jacket.
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