"Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and ..."
"Eroticism, science and humor collide in the work of these two close friendsDalí/Duchamp takes a detailed look at the little-explored relationship between two of the 20th century’s most famous artists. The two might seem like polar opposites at first glance―Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the father of conceptual art who rejected painting in 1918, appears to have little in common with the showmanlike Salvador Dalí (1904–89), the exceptional ..."
Billy Al Bengston Dentos by EdRuscha, Billy Bengston Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2018 by Parrasch Heijnen Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-692-94442-4, ISBN: 0-692-94442-7
"Between 1965 and 1970, Los Angeles painter Billy Al Bengston (born 1934) challenged the limitations of painting through his famous Dentos series, using automobile lacquers and polyurethane sprayed on dented, punctured aluminum sheets. This book documents the series."
"This visually exciting book, which presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection. One of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States, the Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B. Marron, UBS's American Chairman, a Vice Chairman and former President of the Museum, and a Trustee of the Museum since 1 ..."
"With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God. Acting as curators, they have invited 100 artists to respond to one of art's most enduring challenges: picturing the divine. The artists selected are those whose work the curators know and admire, those who possess the sense of humor and audacity necessary for such a project, or artists who are "likely to ..."
"This splendid celebration of the illustrated book as an art form begins with remarkable works produced in France by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century, and traces the international development of the modern illustrated book to the last decade of the 20th century. Major artists of the modern movement, among them Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, turned to the "illumination" of poems, c ..."
"Los Angeles is a city of dualities--sunshine and noir, coastline beaches and urban grit, natural beauty and suburban sprawl, the obvious and the hidden. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles reveals these dualities and more, in images captured by master photographers such as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Julius Shulman and Garry Winogrand, as well as many younger artists, among them Matthew Brandt, Katy Gran ..."
Sign Painters(Updated) by Faythe Levine, Sam Macon, EdRuscha Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton Architectural Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61689-083-4, ISBN: 1-61689-083-5
"There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our visual landscape ..."
"Harland Miller combines a painterly aesthetic with a literary mind and a uniquely gritty, north-of-England sense of humor. His bold, colorful, and tactile paintings reflect an original perspective on a rich heritage of pop art and literature: there is D. H. Lawrence's Dirty Northern Bastard; Ernest Hemingway's 12 Rounds With God; and Miller's own guide to the glorious English coast, Bridlington: Ninety-Three Million Miles From the Sun. ..."
"Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos, the artist’s multivalent images both portray and interrogate the contemporary world’s relentlessly packaged environment. By placing Ruscha’s celebrated Course of Empire—a ten-painting instal ..."
"Transforming words into icons and images into wide-screen epics, Ed Ruscha has wholly reconceived the terms of painting for our era. Tagged variously as a Conceptualist, Pop artist or latter-day Surrealist, Ruscha flouts category, or rather incorporates all categories, always surprising and experimenting with both subject and method. His paintings are steeped in our times: cinema, advertising, logos, late capitalism and the twists and t ..."
"Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength is published on the occasion of the artist's completion of -Industrial Strength Sleep, - a 23-foot by 9-foot tapestry created at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and based on his 1989 painting of the same name. In his introductory essay, curator Paul Schimmel explains the artist's process: -Though Ruscha has consistently pushed the boundaries of his own iconography, which typically comprises ..."
"Between 1969 and 1974, the influential curator Lucy Lippard (born 1937) curated four decisive Conceptual art exhibitions, and in doing so reinvented the exhibition catalogue. 4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce and hugely important catalogues produced for those exhibitions: 557,087 (the Seattle Art Museum), 955,000 (the Vancouver Art Gallery), 7,500 (the California Institute of Art) and 2,972,453 (the Centro de Arte ..."
"El actor y comisario James Franco, reinterpreta la película de 1955 'Rebelde sin Causa'. Con colaboraciones del cineasta H. Korine, el fotógrafo T. Richardson o el artista E. Ruscha, Franco consigue romper con la estética del film original manteniendo tanto la filosofía de los actores originales como la de las escenas más emblemáticas. El catálogo de la exposición 'Rebel' recoge parte de la exhibición junto con imágenes inéditas y refle ..."
"has praised Esopus as "a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty, less flipped through than stared at," and has also stated that, upon viewing it, readers will " . . . Reconcile their expectations of what a magazine is . . . ." This fifth issue of the semiannual, advertisment-free publication contains artists' projects by Ed Ruscha, Ati Maier, and Shanan Kurtz; "The Greatest," an 11" x 52" removable poster of Savannah barber Ulysses Davis's w ..."