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	Ed Ruscha - Biography and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, Edward Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937, and lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving permanently to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 through 1960.
		Ruscha's work has been exhibited internationally for three decades and is represented in major museum collections.
		Ruscha is represented in Los Angeles by Gagosian Gallery and in New York by Leo Castelli Gallery.
	www.beatmuseum.org /ruscha/edruscha.html (292 words)

	Ed Ruscha: The Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ed Ruscha is 63, and Oklahoma born, but the coolest of cool Californian.
		Ruscha creates a tension with this device, even when the smallest word possible, such as ‘Me’ is laid across an icy waste.
		Ruscha seems to seek escape from the strips, only then to be drawn back home again to the city.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /reports/ruscha_ed.htm (416 words)

	NGA: Edward Ruscha - Lisp, 1968 - 01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NGA: Edward Ruscha - Lisp, 1968 - 01
		National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Edward Ruscha, one of the most compelling artists of the last forty years, is best known for paintings in which words and phrases play a central role.
		Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Oklahoma, Ruscha moved to Los Angeles in 1956 with the intention of becoming a commercial artist.
	www.nga.gov /feature/ruscha/ruscha01.htm (64 words)

	Ed Ruscha Retrospective Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ruscha's artistic vision, which is particularly attuned to the prepackaged look and language of American popular culture, was influenced by side jobs in typography and layout, a revelatory trip to Europe and encounters with the art of Jasper Johns.
		Ruscha was also energized and affected by the environment at Chouinard and in Los Angeles, and by the presence of artists such as Ed Kienholz, Robert Irwin and John Altoon.
		ED RUSCHA is a traveling exhibition jointly organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England.
	www.mamfw.org /ruscha.html (872 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Ed Ruscha, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
		Ruscha, after all, is a lapsed Catholic who, true to type, has never entirely escaped his upbringing.
		Ruscha's art carries most weight when it is lighter in touch, often when he is working on paper.
		Ruscha's little books have had many fans (me among them), and in their witty cataloguing of the everyday world - their understated style and design - is a kind of precise visual poetry of the unspectacular.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1341579,00.html (1233 words)

	LRB \| Hal Foster : At the Whitney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(Ruscha did travel to Europe in 1961, at the age of 23, only to return with photos which suggest that Paris really is in Texas.) He is a singular artist, at once folk, Conceptual and Pop, an unlikely son of Edward Hopper, Marcel Duchamp and James Dean.
		For Ruscha, 'Los Angeles is like a series of storefront planes that are all vertical from the street,' and this flat frontality is reflected everywhere in his art.
		At the same time, Ruscha presents this dream-space as thin and fragile (one of his keyed-up sunsets contains the words 'eternal amnesia' in small print at the bottom), and sometimes there is a hint of catastrophe, a sick glow beyond the usual smog, a touch of Nathaniel West or Joan Didion.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n17/fost01_.html (1126 words)

	Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky 954752283 947286000 Cambridge USA Harvard University Art Museum http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/ 956527199 Harvard University Art Museum The Harvard University Art Museums is presenting an exhibition exploring the work of artists Ed Ruscha (American, b.
		Ruscha and Gursky are also linked by the degree of distance they each maintain from their subjects.
		Ruscha, who used photography to rethink painting when painting meant Abstract Expressionism, was also among the first to recognize that surface can be as telling as depth.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/947286000.954752283.html (855 words)

	The Very Best Books : Ed Ruscha
		Ruscha has been considered a 'West Coast' artist, and although Los Angeles is undeniably the source of inspiration for his art, the themes he addresses are far-reaching and universal.
		This book is the first monograph on Ruscha's work; it looks with discernment and insightful detail at the prolific and many-faceted career of an artist whose work has been variously described as pop, conceptual, or surrealist; a painter as well as a print-, book-, and filmmaker.
		ED RUSCHA is a book to accompany the important retrospective of the artist's works throughout his career - from his introduction in the 1960's POP ART movement to the present.
	www.elise.com /store/0714839086/Ed_Ruscha.html (332 words)

	\| Ed Ruscha : S Book \|
		There is a clever simplicity in the way that Ruscha arranges words across his paintings and drawings, a whimsical spontaneity in the work.
		Ruscha drove across the country on Route 66, from California to Oklahoma, and along the way he photographed gas stations.
		Ruscha has managed to take something as simple as a letter, and make it into something bigger and more wonderful than we thought it was.
	www.crownpoint.com /bookstore/artists/ruscha_s_book_review.html (626 words)

	Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings: 1958-1970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a 1976 drawing by Ed Ruscha, the word "Promise"—--spelled out in ribbon-like script—--is suspended at an oblique angle against a delicate gray background and bathed in a gauzy white light.
		Switching to a career in fine art from his dream of becoming a commercial artist, Ed Ruscha first came into prominence in the early 60s with his large word paintings and paintings of commercial icons, such as 20th Century Fox and Standard Station, that related in manner and style to the nascent Pop art movement.
		In 2001, Ruscha was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member of the Department of Art.
	www.enotalone.com /books/3882439726.html (461 words)

	Daniel Templon Ruscha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1968 Ed Ruscha photographed the images that were to be finally realized in the form of his book: Nine Swimming Pools.
		As in all of Ed Ruscha’s works the images operate as specific signs for something beyond their immediate referent.
		Ed Ruscha is the “information man” of Los Angeles, having his keen wit tuned to the oil stained roads of LA since his arrival in 1950.
	www.danieltemplon.com /Ruschapools.html (324 words)

	Ed Ruscha: ARCANA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a charming little catalogue published in conjunction with a recent exhibition of forty-seven vintage photographic images of Edward Ruscha taken over the years by his good friend (and fellow Oklahoma City to L.A. transplant) Jerry McMillan.
		Published in conjunction with a 1978 Australian exhibition of the artist's drawings and prints, this is a fully illustrated catalogue raisonnΘ of Edward Ruscha's prints from 1966-76, as well as thirty word drawings.
		This is a well illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1988 touring Japanese Museum retrospective of Ed Ruscha's paintings from the 1980s.
	www.arcanabooks.com /INVENTORY_interface/arcanainventory/edwardruscha_page.asp (1216 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Art World
		Ruscha was born in Nebraska, in 1937, and raised in Oklahoma City.
		It was a voyage of discovery, memorialized in &ldquo;Ed Ruscha and Photography” by a revelatory series of small fl-and-white photographs taken with a two-lens camera (the kind you look down into, at a pane of frosted glass, to view the subject).
		Ruscha’s expressive style is often mistakenly called “deadpan.” Really, it’s no-pan: an attitude of anyone and no one, which seems to have gelled for him in the vulnerable gaze of an innocent abroad.
	newyorker.com /critics/art/?040726craw_artworld (1119 words)

	The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha
		For a 1970 series, "News, Mews, Brews, Stews and Dues" Ruscha chose words lightly associated with aspects of British life and culture; choosing a group of rhyming words gave the literal aspect of the endeavor a tongue-in-cheek quality, a subtle humor that often percolates through Ruscha's work.
		More recently, as the permutations and combinations continue unabated, Ruscha places a fuzzy silhouette of a hunting dog in the midground of a print, with crisply clear sheaves of grain in the foreground that, in high relief, create a vivid three-dimensional effect.
		Ruscha's interest in such depth of perception goes another step with his recent excursions into holography.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Ruscha.htm (629 words)

	, Ed Ruscha and Photography, Ed Ruscha and Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Content: Since the beginning of Ed Ruscha’s career in the late 1950s, photography has been both an inspiration and a source of discovery.
		This volume thoroughly traces Ruscha's engagement with photography and reveals how his photographic works shed new light on his career as a whole.
		Wolf remarks, "Ed Ruscha’s books are among the most original achievements in the art of the 1960s and 1970s, and are the photographic works he is most known for.
	node1104.bookshop.com.ru /1/1104/item/3865210171.htm (189 words)

	Ed Ruscha Chosen for Biennale (washingtonpost.com)
		A committee of American museum curators has selected Ed Ruscha, a leading painter, to represent the United States in June at the Venice Biennale, putting an end to a year of questions about whether the country would participate in the prestigious art festival.
		Ruscha, he said yesterday, "is one of those people who survived the pop art movement, and his work was never like the rest." Ruscha's art often revolves around words and phrases "and the way topography influences the language," Rifkin said.
		Ruscha, a native of Omaha who was raised in Oklahoma, developed his approaches as a printer's assistant and by studying the groundbreaking work of Jasper Johns.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A10820-2004Oct29.html (683 words)

	The Broad Art Foundation - The Collection - Ed Ruscha
		Ed Ruscha, a Los Angeles based artist best known for his innovative use of language in paintings, is represented by five works in The Broad Art Foundation collection.
		In his work of the 1960s, Ruscha used large isolated words or phrases hovering in front of an enigmatic, solid-colored background to explore the symbolic power of words and imagery.
		This fireplace is depicted using Ruscha’s signature “worm’s eye perspective” with plunging diagonals, as seen in his paintings of architectural structures (e.g.
	www.broadartfoundation.org /collection/ruscha.html (602 words)

	Gagosian Gallery, CA: Ed Ruscha: Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ed Ruscha began taking photographs while a student at the Chouinard School in Los Angeles in 1959.
		However, Ruscha’s books mark a significant departure from traditional formats as they are assembled but not composed, clean but not slick, and were meant for broad distribution.
		Ed Ruscha’s books document the artist’s surroundings and journeys “on the road” between 1963 and 1978.
	www.artnet.com /event/47627/Ed_Ruscha_iPhotographsi.html (278 words)

	Ed Ruscha's American Highway (washingtonpost.com)
		Ed Ruscha's 1968 "Pool," a drawing made from gunpowder, conjures images of California swimming pools.
		Ed Ruscha's America comes to you in bits, in a stream of hints and guesses.
		Ruscha says: "I've always had a deep respect for things that cannot be explained.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A33693-2005Feb17.html (661 words)

	Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Ed Ruscha: When Art Rises to the Level of Graphic Design
		It's no surprise that one of Ruscha's earliest -- and most loaded -- subjects is one that he returned to repeatedly: that most iconic of American typographic expressions, the landmark, once-temporary-now-permanent HOLLYWOOD sign that symbolizes his hometown to the rest of the world.
		Posted by: Michael Bierut at July 12, 2004 10:40 PM Ruscha's drawings are exquisite, his concepts clever, and his experimentation with materials is mildly interesting.
		Ruscha learned to freeze it in midthrow, causing a helpless, not unpleasant buzz at the controls of consciousness.
	www.designobserver.com /archives/000166.html (3793 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha
		Enigmatic paintings, drawings, and photographic books of gasoline stations, apartment buildings, palm trees, and vacant lots have made Ed Ruscha (born 1937) one of America's most important and influential contemporary artists.
		The first museum retrospective of Ruscha's drawings highlights his genius for the wry and deadpan juxtaposition of words and objects.
		Ruscha casts a critical eye on the shifting emblems of American popular culture in the form of classic Hollywood logos and stylized gas stations.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/ruschainfo.shtm (272 words)

	Ed Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the most consistently inventive artists of recent times, Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media.
		From his early powerful word paintings to his influential artist books of the sixties and seventies to his recent colorful views of generic mountains, Ruscha has investigated the spaces between highways and journeys, images and words, abstraction and representation, public imagery and the contemporary landscape.
		Ed Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains presents some of Ruscha's most amazing illustrations from the 1970s—images that feature cryptic slogans, often reminiscent of advertising language, at turns obscured and revealed by the artist's hand.
	www.artbook.com /3883754315.html (224 words)

	Ed Ruscha Art: PicassoMio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the artist's own words: 'When I first became attracted to the idea of being an artist,' Ed Ruscha once said, 'painting was the last method, it was an almost obsolete, archaic form of communication...
		In the early 60s, Ruscha's work was pivotal both in registering the paradigm shift from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, and in crystallizing the distinct identity of West Coast art.
		More recently Ruscha has returned to color and, in a number of visually gorgeous works that superimpose words over images of mountains, engaged with the sublime.
	www.picassomio.com /EdRuscha (903 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Ed Ruscha: before he was famous
		Ed Ruscha Says Goodbye to College Joys shows the artist sharing a large ornate bed with a number of women.
		Ruscha became one of the most successful post-war US artists, known for his epic American landscapes bearing superimposed slogans.
		Ruscha has still not seen the images, but he did give the show his blessing.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1229319,00.html (452 words)

	Ed Ruscha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ruscha has investigated the space between images and words, often using words and phrases as if they were found objects.
		The work of Edward Ruscha has been exhibited internationally for over thirty years and is included in major museum collections.
		Ruscha has managed to elude definition, continually redefine his own terms and influence the newest generation of artists.
	www.aigamiami.org /FaceOff/ed_ruscha.html (170 words)

	Ed Ruscha: A Graphic View
		Primarily working in lithography, Ruscha has worked in all printmaking media, creating images that comment on the urban vernacular landscape, incorporating letter relationships and wordplay overlaid onto familiar scenes, such as found in his famous "Standard Station" or "Hollywood Sign" prints.
		Edward Ruscha was born in Omaha in 1937 and was raised in Oklahoma City.
		Ed Ruscha has recently been the subject of major retrospective exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
	www.artincontext.org /listings/pages/exhib/d/e2053qdd/press.htm (275 words)

	ARTWALK NY 10TH ANNIVERSARY — Coalition for the Homeless
		Ed Ruscha has consistently mingled his context of Los Angeles with the motifs of language and landscape to communicate a particular urban experience.
		A major retrospective of Ruschaâs career opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in June 2000 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Miami Art Museum, and the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, TX.
		Ruschaâs most recent major solo exhibitions have been at the Gagosian Galleries: the âPalindrome Paintingsâ series was unveiled at the Chelsea space in May 2002 while the most comprehensive display of the artistâs photographs was shown at the Beverly Hills location in March 2003.
	www.coalitionforthehomeless.org /events/Ed_Ruscha.html (466 words)

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