Title: Allen Ruppersberg
Description: This fully illustrated catalog accompanies a major retrospective exhibition on one of conceptual art's most inventive and acclaimed practitioners. Emerging in late-1960s Los Angeles, Ruppersberg was among that city's first generation of conceptual artists to espouse a working method that privileges ideas and process over conventional aesthetic objects. Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular - its music, popular imagery and ephemera - mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions. This is the most comprehensive publication to date on Ruppersberg's work, featuring a wealth of scholarly content and critical writing connecting Ruppersberg's work to the larger contemporary art field. Produced by the Walker's award-winning design studio and in close collaboration with the artist, the book presents a holistic view of Ruppersberg's wide-ranging, 50-year practice.  Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (17.3. - 29.7. 2018).
Subjects: Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation, Conceptual art, Installations (Art), Postmodernism, Themes, motives, Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Bibliography, Catalogs, Artists' books, Erika and Fred Torri Artists' Books Collection, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.))
Places: United States
People: Allen Ruppersberg (1944-)
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century