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Ed Ruscha / Neal Benezra and Kerry Brougher with a contribution by Phyllis Rosenzweig.

By: Benezra, Neal David, 1953-.
Contributor(s): Ruscha, Edward | Brougher, Kerry | Rosenzweig, Phyllis D | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England).
Publisher: Washington, DC : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2000Description: 206 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 3908247330 :.Subject(s): Ruscha, Edward -- ExhibitionsSummary: One of the most consistently inventive artists of recent times, Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. From his early powerful word paintings to his influential artist books of the sixties and seventies to his recent colorful views of generic mountains, Ruscha has investigated the spaces between highways and journeys, images and words, abstraction and representation, public imagery and the contemporary landscape. In this publication, which accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig focus on all aspects of Ruscha's career, revealing him not merely as an artist closely linked with Los Angeles, but as an important international figure in contemporary art.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection N 6537 .R87 A4 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 623785
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Catalog of an exhibition jointly organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; held at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 29-September 17, 2000, and others.

Includes bibliographical references.

One of the most consistently inventive artists of recent times, Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. From his early powerful word paintings to his influential artist books of the sixties and seventies to his recent colorful views of generic mountains, Ruscha has investigated the spaces between highways and journeys, images and words, abstraction and representation, public imagery and the contemporary landscape. In this publication, which accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig focus on all aspects of Ruscha's career, revealing him not merely as an artist closely linked with Los Angeles, but as an important international figure in contemporary art.

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