Ed Ruscha’s artists’ books are also characterized by their simple design. In his books, Ruscha shows elements of the urban ...

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art ... He is perhaps best known for his artist’s books, such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), as well as his word paintings which skew the ...

Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and ... “Royal Road Test,” a book the artist made in 1967.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times The other breakthrough of that early European ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Edward Ruscha ... its 126 prints, 17 books and 50 photographs show Ruscha to be a connoisseur of the conundrums created when pictures and words occupy ...

“Our Flag” by Ed Ruscha is now on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ... pop-conceptual borrowings of signage, comic books, logos and advertising. The work comes late in an ...

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”.

The buildings, billboards, and logos of Ed Ruscha ... of Ruscha and his broader achievements. “If ‘Now Then’ strikes the same notes a few too many times for so inventive an artist ...