“Ed Ruscha and Photography” * Thru June 1, 2008
Called a “pop artist”, the 70 year old and still very popular Ruscha (pronounced “rew-shay”), will have his prints, some not seen before, and photo books displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, thru June 1,2008.
BTW: “In 1962 Ruscha’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Jim Dine, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking “New Painting of Common Objects,” curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first “Pop Art” exhibitions in America. These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed Art forever, “Pop Art“.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/ruscha
(Image: “Sin, (without)”, 2002 – lithograph, Ed Ruscha)