Ed Ruscha by Christopher Riopelle
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 installation originally created for the 2005 Venice Biennale—in dialogue with Thomas Cole’s five-picture cycle The Course of Empire from the 1830s, this catalogue offers a fresh perspective on each of these disparate masterpieces. Unlike Cole’s grandiose vision of the rise and fall of classical civilization, Ruscha’s work comprises five black-and-white Los Angeles landscapes made in 1992 paired with color representations of the same sites as they appeared ten years later and draws attention to how often-overlooked changes in the evolving urban landscape are redolent of economic might and globalization or decline and stagnation. Published by National Gallery Company, London/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London (06/11/2018–10/07/2018)Christopher Riopelle is the Neil Westreich Curator of Post-1800 Paintings and Daniel F. Herrmann is curator of special projects, both at the National Gallery, London. Tom McCarthy is a British writer and artist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857096323 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857096320 |
| Title | Ed Ruscha |
| Author | Christopher Riopelle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | National Gallery Company Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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