Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which have never before been published or translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations, selected and arranged by the artist.

Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (October Books)

Arts & Photography

Ruscha, Edward

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

Guacamole airlines and other drawings

From the publisher: "Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings is ... Ruscha's own selection of 84 of his favorite drawings. Using such imaginative media as gunpowder, spinach, and carrots, Ruscha's drawings are small, intimate forays into the dehumanized modern world. What could be more telling than 'Made in USA' boldly silhouetted on a pink ground made of Pepto-Bismol? Ruscha reminds us that where there is absurdity and humor there is truth."

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Catalogs & Directories

H.N. Abrams

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Drawings by Ed Ruscha. Poem by Peter Schjeldahl. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Ed Ruscha. 96 pp., including one 2-page gatefold, with 33 four-color plates and 51 black-and-white plates. 10 x 10-1/4 inches.

Harry N. Abrams

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Joe Goode

Duncan, MIchael

Guenther, Bruce

Goode, Joe

Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.)

Newport Harbor Art Museum

Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonni Sic of the Paintings: 1958-1970

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Book by Treisman, Deborah, Hopps, Walter, Hopper, Dennis, Ruscha, Edward, Auster, Paul, Ashbery, John, Handke, Peter, Southern, Terry

Grand Street 49: Hollywood (Summer 1994)

Literature & Fiction

SOUTHERN, Terry

Hopps, Walter

AUSTER, PAUL.

Hopper, Dennis

Treisman, Deborah

Ashbery, John.

HANDKE, PETER

Essays & Correspondence

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Book by (RUSCHA, EDWARD). Hulten, Pontus Dan Cameron. With an Interview By Bernard Blistene

Edward Ruscha: Paintings (English and Dutch Edition)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Washington Pr

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