中文简介：

本书介绍了美国波普主义艺术家Edward Ruscha（生于1937年）一生中令人惊叹的创作范围，包括他童年时期的作品，一直延伸到他现在的作品。这里介绍的项目不包括Ruscha的绘画、素描、版画和艺术家书籍的制作。其中许多是不为人知的，大多数首次在此重现。本书由三个部分组成——项目和简讯；人脸轮廓档案；以及彩绘封面——为Ruscha的爱好者和学者提供了Ruscha实践中迄今未知的一面，同时也展示了这些项目如何与他知名的艺术作品相吻合，有时甚至预示着他的艺术作品。从1990年开始，大约有270个彩绘书籍封面，在书籍上创作小绘画和图画。57个人脸轮廓是用一种机械装置制作的轮廓，用于再现轮廓。**的部分“项目和简讯”包括装置、雕塑和物品、电影、书籍和海报设计、实用作品等等。

英文简介：

Introducing readers to the stunning breadth of Edward Ruscha's (b. 1937) creative output over the course of his entire life, this book includes materials dating back to his childhood and extending to his present-day output. The projects featured here fall outside Ruscha's production of paintings, drawings, prints, and artists' books. Many of these are unknown and most are reproduced here for the first time. Composed of three sections—Projects and Ephemera; Contour Gauge Profiles; and Painted Book Covers—the book offers Ruscha enthusiasts and scholars a hitherto unknown aspect of Ruscha's practice, while also showing how these projects coincide with, and sometimes even prefigure, the artistic work for which he is best known. The approximately 270 painted book covers, begun in 1990, utilize found books as support for small paintings and drawings. The 57 contour gauge profiles are silhouette-like profiles made using a mechanical device for reproducing contours. The largest section, Projects and Ephemera, consists of installations, sculpture and objects, films, book and poster design, utilitarian works, and more.