sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: ᴇᴅᴡᴀʀᴅ ʀᴜsᴄʜᴀ, ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴsᴇᴛ sᴛʀɪᴘ, 1966

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             Early Career

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Edward Ruscha - born 1937 in Omaha, NE

moved to Oklahoma City, OK in 1941

1956 - moved to LA, attend Chouinard Art Institute

(now known as CalArts), graduate in 1960

small paintings of Art Nouveau street signage in Paris

dealer - Leo Castelli

saw Jasper Johns's 1955 Target with Four Faces

pop style paintings: oof, boss, spam

paintings of gas stations, bare geometry, exaggerated angel

1962 - included alongside Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol,

Jim Dine in New Painting of Common Objects at

Pasadena Art Museum

Surrealism, trompe l'oleil, Conceptual Art

relationship between text and image

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               Analysis

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1963-1978 - 16 photobooks

4th photobook - Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966)

Twentysix Gasoline Stations (gas stations along Route 66

between Oklahoma City and LA), Various Small Fired and

Milk, Some Los Angeles Apartments

accordion folded book, 25 ft long

stood in back of pickup truck while friend drove

chose to work early in morning, no pedestrians

engages LA's car culture

rephotograph Sunset Boulevard every 3 years

acquired by Getty Foundation in LA in 2011

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           West Coast

         Conceptualism

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1960-70s - John Baldessar, Allen Ruppersberg, Chris Burden

cool, ironic tone

Ruscha and Kosuth share informational style, Ruscha more 

deadpan, more humurous

saw Duchamp's readymades at Pasadena Art Museum in 1963

Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans the year before