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...Losing the prejudice against [photographs] should be the important thing,” said well-known photographer and painter Ed Ruscha. “It doesn’t matter how you make your statement, but what...
...Ruscha, whose book of photographs Thirty Four Parking Lots features stock photography—culled from others’ portfolios as well as his own pieces—called the notion that artists must produce all the components of their own work “hackneyed...
...more ways than one, because California life is hardly imaginable without autos and thruways (nor is American life in general, but California is less so). The very perception of landscape and townscape was locked into auto experience. Even conventional views of buildings in the street, like Ed Ruscha's gas stations, give the impression that they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s - represented here by a slashing landscape called "Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957" - gave those...
...Humor is central to many of the works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...
...more ways than one, because California life is hardly imaginable without autos and thruways (nor is American life in general, but California is less so). The very perception of landscape and townscape was locked into auto experience. Even conventional views of buildings in the street, like Ed Ruscha's gas stations, give the impression that they're glimpsed vividly and briefly from a passing vehicle. And an essentially traditional modernist like Richard Diebenkorn, during the figurative-landscape phase of his work in the '50s and early '60s--represented here by a slashing landscape called Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957--gave those...