Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire by Christopher Riopelle Hardcover, New & Sealed 5
Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire by Christopher Riopelle Hardcover, New & Sealed \n\nOver 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\u2019s multivalent images both portray and interrogate the contemporary world\u2019s relentlessly packaged environment. By placing Ruscha\u2019s celebrated Course of Empire\u2015a ten-painting installation originally created for the 2005 Venice Biennale\u2015in dialogue with Thomas Cole\u2019s five-picture cycle The Course of Empire from the 1830s, this catalogue offers a fresh perspective on each of these disparate masterpieces. Unlike Cole\u2019s grandiose vision of the rise and fall of classical civilization, Ruscha\u2019s work comprises five black-and-white Los Angeles landscapes made in 1992 paired with color representations of the same sit)
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