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Edward Ruscha, Coyote, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 1989

Edward Ruscha, Coyote, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 1989

Edward Ruscha, Etc. #207, 1991, Lithograph (more…)

Edward Ruscha, Etc. #207, 1991, Lithograph (more…)

“The painting of a target by Jasper Johns was an atomic bomb in my training. I knew that I had seen something truly profund. Johns was unknown and so was his kind of art. The teachers said it was not art. Twenty years later, of course, what does their art resemble?” — Edward Ruscha, Statement in 50 West Coast Artists, p. 11 Section 22, from Gravure Group (E. 236), 1995, Photogravure printed on Somerset paper

“The painting of a target by Jasper Johns was an atomic bomb in my training. I knew that I had seen something truly profund. Johns was unknown and so was his kind of art. The teachers said it was not art. Twenty years later, of course, what does their art resemble?”

— Edward Ruscha, Statement in 50 West Coast Artists, p. 11

Section 22, from Gravure Group (E. 236), 1995, Photogravure printed on Somerset paper

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet “The person enters reading words, then without, then thoughts, until the entire quotation is observed. It is my intent to separate the words by enough space as to cause the viewer to not only observe the thought as a whole, but to reflect for a moment on each word as an individual word and each picture as an individual picture. […] The power of the complete quote cannot be denied, but the attention will also be focused on each single word.” Leave Any Information at the Signal: A proposal by Edward Ruscha for The Circular Ring and for The Lunnettes of the New Miami-Dade Public Library, 1985 p. 14 [read the book here] Edward Ruscha, US (E. 221), 1994, mixografia in colors on handmade paper

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The person enters reading words, then without, then thoughts, until the entire quotation is observed. It is my intent to separate the words by enough space as to cause the viewer to not only observe the thought as a whole, but to reflect for a moment on each word as an individual word and each picture as an individual picture. […] The power of the complete quote cannot be denied, but the attention will also be focused on each single word.”

Leave Any Information at the Signal: A proposal by Edward Ruscha for The Circular Ring and for The Lunnettes of the New Miami-Dade Public Library, 1985 p. 14 [read the book here]

Edward Ruscha, US (E. 221), 1994, mixografia in colors on handmade paper

Edward Ruscha Excuse Me (1975), Color lithograph

Edward Ruscha

Excuse Me (1975), Color lithograph