Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

Ed Ruscha: Course Of Empire

Auteur(s) : Lise Riopelle

Exhibition at the National Gallery, Londres, 11 June - 7 October 2018

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (1937-) has created an elegant, stylised vision of an overlooked modern American landscape of petrol stations, highways and industrial units.

This exhibition catalogue presents Ruscha's ten-painting installation that evokes Thomas Cole's epic five-painting cycle The Course of Empire (1834-1836). Unlike Cole's grandiose vision of the rise and fall of a classical civilisation, Ruscha's Course of Empire is a seemingly barren, simplified vision, revealing his preoccupation for Los Angeles urban landscape: utilitarian structures with no pretension to beauty but redolent of economic might and global reach, their mundane forms evolving in response to material needs.

Informations
Langue(s)
English
Parution
Pages
48
Éditeur
The National Gallery
Format
Grand format
Dimensions
0 × 0 × 0 mm
Out of print
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