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Ed Ruscha - Course of Empire (Hardcover)
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Ed Ruscha - Course of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: National Gallery London Publications
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Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has
created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American
landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings.
Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos, the
artist's multivalent images both portray and interrogate the
contemporary world's relentlessly packaged environment. By placing
Ruscha's celebrated Course of Empire-a ten-painting installation
originally created for the 2005 Venice Biennale-in dialogue with
Thomas Cole's five-picture cycle The Course of Empire from the
1830s, this catalogue offers a fresh perspective on each of these
disparate masterpieces. Unlike Cole's grandiose vision of the rise
and fall of classical civilization, Ruscha's work comprises five
black-and-white Los Angeles landscapes made in 1992 paired with
color representations of the same sites as they appeared ten years
later and draws attention to how often-overlooked changes in the
evolving urban landscape are redolent of economic might and
globalization or decline and stagnation.
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