From:
The Works of Edward Ruscha
by Dave Hickey and Peter Plagens, Introduction by Anne Livet with forward by Henry T. Hopkins
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1982
- lifts the curtain on the commonplace sights and sound we no longer see or hear and makes us react to them as we never have before or will again
- “reads” words, titles, slogans, and sentences from books on our common character that only exist in his imagination
- often yanks the viewer into canvases to roam about and make our own determination of what we see and sense
- all like to read his roadmaps differently according to own lights: freedom of new perception – art that jiggles and rearranges our mental landscape, quickens and refreshes our native sensibilities.
- made collages of juxtaposed images and words: resonant device – refines tactics of collage, isolating and combining words and images to increasingly subtle ways – personal rhetoric that is literal and literary
