Business cards

First and only edition of this celebrated collaborative artists' book by Ruscha and Bengston. Conceived with characteristic deadpan humour, ‘Business Cards’ records the creation of the artists' respective business cards, culminating in their ceremonious exchange over dinner at The Bistro in Beverly Hills. Every element of the book forms part of the work: the faux wood-grain covers, leather-cord binding, original photograph mounted on the front cover and the artists' actual business cards stapled at the end. Bengston's card was deliberately crumpled
in each copy. An early and characteristic example of the transformation of the apparently banal materials of everyday Los Angeles life into an artists' book. Edition of 1,000 unnumbered copies, each signed by Ruscha and Bengston on the front cover. Ref. Engberg B7;