Orb Volume 1 #5
Edward Ruscha [Ed.]
1959
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Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: ...
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Orb Volume 1 #5
Edward Ruscha [Ed.]
1959
Los Angeles: Chouinard Art Institute
Single-sheet periodical
14.6 × 27.8 cm (folded)

Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: art, poetry, history, psychology, money-making ideas, action, advertising, and nonsense. Inspired by Dada, this short-lived student newsletter anticipated the aesthetics of later zines and the early practices of mail art.


 


Conceived as a visual and textual montage, this is the fifth issue of Volume 1 (1959), featuring written and drawn contributions by Ruscha and his Chouinard peers, including Charles Frazier, Jacquie Bellon, Bill Kinser, Bud Luckey, and others. This particular copy has a notable provenance, having belonged to Ruscha’s childhood friend and collaborator, the composer and poet Mason Williams.

Los Angeles: Chouinard Art Institute
Single-sheet periodical
14.6 × 27.8 cm (folded)

Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: art, poetry, history, psychology, money-making ideas, action, advertising, and nonsense. Inspired by Dada, this short-lived student newsletter anticipated the aesthetics of later zines and the early practices of mail art.

 

Conceived as a visual and textual montage, this is the fifth issue of Volume 1 (1959), featuring written and drawn contributions by Ruscha and his Chouinard peers, including Charles Frazier, Jacquie Bellon, Bill Kinser, Bud Luckey, and others. This particular copy has a notable provenance, having belonged to Ruscha’s childhood friend and collaborator, the composer and poet Mason Williams.

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Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: art, poetry, history, psychology, money-making ideas, action, advertising, and nonsense. Inspired by Dada, this short-lived student newsletter anticipated the aesthetics of later zines and the early practices of mail art.

 

Conceived as a visual and textual montage, this is the fifth issue of Volume 1 (1959), featuring written and drawn contributions by Ruscha and his Chouinard peers, including Charles Frazier, Jacquie Bellon, Bill Kinser, Bud Luckey, and others. This particular copy has a notable provenance, having belonged to Ruscha’s childhood friend and collaborator, the composer and poet Mason Williams.

Los Angeles: Chouinard Art Institute
Single-sheet periodical
14.6 × 27.8 cm (folded)

Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: art, poetry, history, psychology, money-making ideas, action, advertising, and nonsense. Inspired by Dada, this short-lived student newsletter anticipated the aesthetics of later zines and the early practices of mail art.

 

Conceived as a visual and textual montage, this is the fifth issue of Volume 1 (1959), featuring written and drawn contributions by Ruscha and his Chouinard peers, including Charles Frazier, Jacquie Bellon, Bill Kinser, Bud Luckey, and others. This particular copy has a notable provenance, having belonged to Ruscha’s childhood friend and collaborator, the composer and poet Mason Williams.

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Between 1959 and 1960, Ed Ruscha, then still a student at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, edited and designed ORB, a single-sheet periodical that ranged across the eclectic subjects announced on its cover: art, poetry, history, psychology, money-making ideas, action, advertising, and nonsense. Inspired by Dada, this short-lived student newsletter anticipated the aesthetics of later zines and the early practices of mail art.

 

Conceived as a visual and textual montage, this is the fifth issue of Volume 1 (1959), featuring written and drawn contributions by Ruscha and his Chouinard peers, including Charles Frazier, Jacquie Bellon, Bill Kinser, Bud Luckey, and others. This particular copy has a notable provenance, having belonged to Ruscha’s childhood friend and collaborator, the composer and poet Mason Williams.

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