Leave Any Information at the Signal

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Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

Alexandra Schwartz (Curator of Contemporary Art, Montclair Art Museum), Ed Ruscha

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English

MIT Press
27 February 2004

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: October Books

An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha.

Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the period.

The book is divided into three parts, each of which is arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which have never before been published or translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations, selected and arranged by the artist.

By: Ed Ruscha
Edited by: Alexandra Schwartz (Curator of Contemporary Art Montclair Art Museum)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 871g
ISBN: 9780262681520
ISBN 10: 0262681528
Series: October Books
Pages: 474
Publication Date: 27 February 2004
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandra Schwartz is the editor of a collection of Ed Ruscha's writings, Leave Any Information at the Signal- Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (MIT Press, 2002) and the coeditor of Modern Women- Women Artists in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Ed Ruscha is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Los Angeles.

Reviews for Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

This delightful book is as much artistic biography as cultural history. -- Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTNEWS This year the book I most enjoyed reading...is Ed Ruscha's Leave Any Information at the Signal. -- ARTFORUM