Ed Ruscha .:. Fifty Years of Painting

Ellroy, James et al.,
Ed Ruscha. Fifty Years of Painting. London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2009. 191 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Pappband (gebunden) im Schuber. 4to quer. 1717 g

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* Hayward Gallery, London 14 October - 10 January 2010, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 12 February - 2 May 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 29 May - 5 September 2010. Neuwertig, noch in Plastik eingeschweisst. Daten gemäss SWB-online http://pollux.bsz-bw.de
Bestell-Nr.154326 | ISBN: 978-1-85332-274-7

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Ed Ruscha | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue | Biographien Kunst | Kuenstlermonographien | Ed Ruscha | Malerei | Painting

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Ed Ruscha is one of the most influential and pioneering American artists of the past half-century. He has forged a richly experimental approach to painting by drawing on his interests in printed matter, graphic design, cinema, photography and the flattened cultural landscape of the American West. While his painting has been consistently distinguished by its acute wit and visual elegance, Ruscha has repeat-edly reinvented his artistic vocabulary throughout his career, creating substantial new bodies of work in each decade. Indeed, at one time or another during the past fifty years, he has been alternately celebrated as one of the first Pop artists; a fore-runner of Conceptualism; a latter-day Surrealist; a conceptual landscape painter; and a pioneer of Postmodernism whose use of language as subject matter has been enormously influential. The breadth and originality of his work continues to elude our attempts to categorise it, but this survey offers a larger framework for reconsid-ering the extraordinary rigour and vitality of his art.
This lavishly illustrated book includes new texts by James Ellroy, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, Bruce Wagner and Ulrich Wilmes, together with an interview with the artist by Kristine McKenna, an illustrated chronology and an exhibition history.

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