Ed Ruscha

Tom McCarthy; Daniel F. Herrmann; Christopher Riopelle

ISBN 10: 1857096320 / ISBN 13: 9781857096323

Published by National Gallery London, 2018

About this Item

: Este libro de tapa dura, publicado el 14 de agosto de 2018 por National Gallery London, explora la obra de Ed Ruscha, subtitulado 'Course of Empire'. Con 48 páginas, incluye contribuciones de autores como Tom McCarthy, Daniel F. Herrmann y Christopher Riopelle. El libro analiza la obra de Ruscha en el contexto de su serie 'Course of Empire'. EAN: 9781857096323 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Arte y Cultura Título: Ed Ruscha Autor: Tom McCarthy| Daniel F. Herrmann| Christopher Riopelle Idioma: en Páginas: 48 Formato: tapa dura.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ed Ruscha
• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 1857096320
• ISBN 13: 9781857096323
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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)

About the Author

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.