Ed Ruscha : Road Tested /
Publisher: Fort Worth, TX : Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, ©2011Description: 128 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 29 cmISBN:- 9783775728102
- 3775728104
- 9780929865300
- 0929865308
- N6537.R87 A4 2011
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | N 6537 RUS AUP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0009699 |
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, January 23-April 17, 2011."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128).
A Long Drive / Michael Auping -- Radio On / Richard Prince -- Street Talk with Ed Ruscha / Michael Auping.
Since his first road trip in 1956, driving from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles, Ed Ruscha has continued to muse on America as seen from the road: "I like being in the car, and seeing things from that vantage point," he has said. "Sometimes I give myself assignments to go out on the road and explore different ideas. My books are an example of that." Consisting of around 75 works spanning the artist's entire career, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested includes many of the famous aforementioned artist's books, including Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations, Real Estate Opportunities, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirty-Four Parking Lots and the groundbreaking artist's book Every Building on the Sunset Strip; some of Ruscha's most iconic paintings, such as the "Standard Stations" and the "Hollywood Signs," as well as paintings inspired by street names and road signs; and his exploration of the topography of greater Los Angeles in paintings that depict aerial grids of the city, as well as various southern California horizons and sunsets. Also examined here is the rarely seen Ruscha film Miracle (1975), which tells the story of a mechanic whose obsessive repair of the carburetor on a 1965 Mustang dooms his date with a beautiful woman. The first-ever treatment of a primary theme in the artist's career, Road Tested at last gives Ed Ruscha his own road show.