A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based project called The New Five Foot Shelf, which is the contents of a book collection of nearly 800 pages of encyclopedic text written by the artist as well as photographs from his New York studio at 611 Broadway from 1986 to 2001. Of this project,... Read full biography
A conceptual artist born in Cleveland, Ohio and spending time in California but living primarily in New York City, Allen Ruppersberg studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, earning a BFA degree in 1967. He began his career as a painter but soon switched to a method he found more challenging, which was utilizing books, text and photographs of which, for each, he collected thousands of items---mostly about popular American culture. As both a collector and artist, he created an elaborate web-based project called The New Five Foot Shelf, which is the contents of a book collection of nearly 800 pages of encyclopedic text written by the artist as well as photographs from his New York studio at 611 Broadway from 1986 to 2001. Of this project, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, it was written: "by presenting his studio, work, and tra... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking
1996
Ruzicka, Joseph
220 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present