Andy Warhol said that Pop art was about “liking things”. Ed Ruscha, the octogenarian Pop conceptualist from Los Angeles, is more specific. He likes “the idea of a word becoming a picture”.

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...

Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA ... For example, one sees how Ruscha’s early work emerged from Pop Art (After graduating Chouinard, Ruscha had a studio above the Ferus gallery ...

“Our Flag” by Ed Ruscha is now on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ... of it is as canny and knowing as his earlier pop-conceptual borrowings of signage, comic books, logos ...

But I really liked the streets, the facades of buildings.” American pop artist Ed Ruscha holding a box of daffodils outside a florist’s shop, circa 1970 Tony Evans/Getty Images “We do this ...

ED RUSCHA came to Los Angeles to attend art school ... hosted America’s first exhibition of what would come to be called “pop art” in 1962. The show, New Paintings of Common Objects, marked ...

There’s a curious wryness in the work of West Coast art patriarch Ed Ruscha, one that belies the superficial ... At 80 years old, the pop pioneer shows no signs of slowing down. Ruscha’s take on the ...

Even the acclaimed Californian artists Ed Ruscha and Billy Al Bengston have ... By then, Ruscha had already appeared in the seminal Pop Art group show New Painting of Common Objects at the ...

LOS ANGELES — For more than six decades, Ed Ruscha has been an innovator ... In the early 1960s, Ruscha developed an approach to Pop Art that negotiated other recent art movements through ...

Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and ... It was an approach born from advertising and design, channeled into fine art. It looked like Pop, it looked like Conceptualism.

In 1961, while biding his time in the giant Governor Clinton Hotel in New York awaiting departure on a trip to Europe with his mother and younger brother Paul, 23-year-old Ed Ruscha made a sketch ...