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PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 128 color.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 10   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775728102 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $50.00

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NA LA

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Fort Worth, TX
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 01/23/11-04/17/11

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HATJE CANTZ

Ed Ruscha: Road Tested

Text by Michael Auping, Richard Prince. Interview by Michael Auping.

Ed Ruscha: Road TestedSince 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.
Ed Ruscha (born 1937) has made pioneering work in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, bookmaking, photography and film since 1958. Associated in the early 1960s with the Ferus Gallery, Ruscha was included in Walter Hopps' landmark Pop art show New Painting of Common Objects, at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962. His painting career was recently surveyed in Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting (D.A.P., 2010).

Featured image is reproduced from Ed Ruscha: Road Tested.

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/12/2011

Street Talk with Ed Ruscha
An Interview with Michael Auping

Ed Ruscha Road Tested

Since his first road trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles in 1956, West coast Pop artist Ed Ruscha has been influenced by themes and icons surrounding cars, roads, signs and travel. Through the end of this week, the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth presents Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, an exhibition—organized by Chief Curator Michael Auping—which brings together approximately 75 works by Ruscha that explore these themes in a variety of media. Auping's interview with Ruscha, conducted in November, 2009 in Venice, California, is reproduced from the exhibition's stunning new catalog. continue to blog


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