{"id":3637,"date":"2022-03-02T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/2022\/projection-conference-par-mela-davila-freire-fondation-jan-michalski\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:50:53","slug":"projection-conference-par-mela-davila-freire-fondation-jan-michalski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/2022\/projection-conference-par-mela-davila-freire-fondation-jan-michalski\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Ruscha\u2019s &#8220;The Books of Ed Ruscha&#8221; | Fondation Jan Michalski\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Projection-Conf\u00e9rence par Mela D\u00e1vila Freire\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byEOW94KB2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the film <em>The Books of Ed Ruscha<\/em> (23\u2019), 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 <em>Twenty-six Gasoline Stations<\/em> (1963), <em>Some Los Angeles Apartments<\/em> (1965), or <em>Every Building on the Sunset Strip<\/em> (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. His has been a pioneering and seminal practice in the history of the artists\u2019 books, as researcher Mela D\u00e1vila Freire will analyze it following the screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the film The Books of Ed Ruscha (23\u2019), 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. 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