Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings Barbara Kruger reprints of historical texts by

reprints of historical texts by Eve Babitz

Cast in bronze and measuring over five feet tall

The publication features essays by series editor Lisa Turvey and curator Harry Cooper

Constructed from sheet metal

as well as anatomical terms and handwritten lists of grains

Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings Barbara Kruger reprints of historical texts byThis book was published on the occasion of Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris. The exhibition featured a hologram and ten paintings, several of which depict wooden slats. Alluding to a famous episode in Mark Twains classic 1876 novel in which Sawyer cons his friends into whitewashing a fence, they also evoke earlier Ruscha works that reference Twains writings and extend the artists longtime fascination with wood as