Word: ruscha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...
...Ruscha's works are emotionally and graphically distant from their demure 19th century predecessors. They are linked by photography's challenge: creating image and form out of light and shadow. Chasing Shadows is well-integrated, leading the viewer easily through broad conceptual themes...
Graduate School of Design Gund Hall Gallery. "The Books of Ed Ruscha," through Oct. 29. Works by the 1993 Rouse Visiting Artist...
...West Coast branch of Conceptualism, which Wegman joined during the two years he spent in the Los Angeles area starting in 1970, had the best comedians. In his early days Ed Ruscha photographed parking-lot patterns from the air: a satirist's geometric abstraction. Bruce Nauman photographed himself performing visual puns, like shooting water from his mouth and calling the picture Self-Portrait as a Fountain. And Wegman started making deadpan videos of himself spraying an entire can of deodorant into his armpit. When his new Weimaraner got into the act, Wegman recognized that it was enough to tape...