Stains 1971 to 1975. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl.

A unique altered copy. Pat Steir has altered this copy of Ed Ruscha's Stains 1971 to 1975 by adding paint, ink and other substances onto the pages.

Pat Steir (b. 1938) is a contemporary American painter and printmaker. A leading figure of Conceptual Abstraction, she rose to prominence in 1970s New York with the first generation of feminist artists. She was a founding board member of Printed Matter, a member of the Heresies Collective, and an editorial board member of the journal Semiotext(e).

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; Musée du Louvre, Paris; and Tate, London.

A unique altered copy, with ink, paint, and other interventions by Pat Steir throughout, and her name and an additional stain on upper side; 4to (266 x 264 mm, 10½ x 10½ in); colour reproductions of Ruscha's stain paintings, edited and designed by John Cheim; plain endpapers, tan moire effect boards, publisher's vinyl dust jacket with titles printed in black, in a custom dark orange cloth chemise and slipcase; [84]pp.