Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius & Me

By: M. Iversen

Ed Ruscha's Spied Upon Scene series of paintings, begun in 2017, depict majestic mountainscapes resembling the idyllic ranges of travel books, postcards, adventure movies, and the Paramount Pictures logo. These vistas, visible through oval-shaped lenses or window grids, seem to refer to the nineteenth-century tradition of the American Sublime. In fact, their lineage includes an obscure American painter from the turn of the century, Louis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847869067
• ISBN13: 9780847869060
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Gagosian / Rizzoli
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.7" x 10.0"