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Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
Karin Breuer
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Description for Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
Hardback. The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. The everyday landscapes of the West, are the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly recognizable paintings and works on paper. This book offers a full exploration of the painter's fascination with the evolving American West. Editor(s): Breuer, Karin. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 color photographs and b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AGC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 305. .
The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West, especially as experienced from the automobile - gas stations, billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of roadway - are the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly recognizable paintings and works on paper, as well as his influential artist books such as Twentysix ... Read more
The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West, especially as experienced from the automobile - gas stations, billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of roadway - are the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly recognizable paintings and works on paper, as well as his influential artist books such as Twentysix ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520290693
SKU
V9780520290693
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Ref
99-13
About Karin Breuer
Karin Breuer is curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her publications include Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism, Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, and Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art.
Reviews for Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
Viewing the west through Ruscha's eyes offers planners to think about the opposite of roadside America: the vibrancy of center cities so often dismissed as crowds; the pedestrian environments so ripe for redesign; the public spaces that we forgot to build as we expanded; and, most of all, the zoning laws, street patterns, and real estate typologies that ... Read more