How to pronounce “ruscha” in English

Ruscha also did several other books at the time, and I'm just giving you little images of them that I'm not sure what's going on with the quality there, but at the top is

signs are things that Ruscha deals with a lot, as does Hopper, sort of our everyday lives in looking at it in a new way.

were directly influenced by Ruscha.

But something that was really interesting about Ruscha is that he was one of the first artists to forge a relationship with his contemporaries in Hollywood.

This is a photograph of Ruscha from 1964 that Hopper took and has been reproduced really often and sort of captures the young Ruscha.

the 70s were really interested in Ruscha's books, thinking about the post-modern city,

I'm looking at other artists like Ed Ruscha.

Ruscha then went on to do another film in 1975, which is another kind of shaggy dog story, sort of surreal.

And then I have a chapter on how Ruscha, and you get the sense of this I think from the Dennis Hopper picture of him, he really was a genius at marketing himself as a movie star

Chris: So, Ruscha seemed to, especially in his early career, it's like he's got the 20th Century Fox, he's like looking at corporate iconography, and I'm wondering did he, and,

So, Ruscha definitely, he's kind of popular I think with Hollywood collectors now.

a set group in LA before then, and Ruscha was really the most successful of this group.

sign "TV Radio Service", and then Ruscha kind of to the side with that movie star pose -- so, capturing both the personality and also what his work was like.

Today's speaker is a writer of the book, Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles, the author of this, this book; editor of a collection of Ruscha's writings, Leave Any Information at the Signal:

collection of the Whitney Museum in New York, and this was one of Ruscha's first big examinations of Hollywood, so, of course, you recognize what this is.

So, it was really interesting for me to understand that in Ruscha's work, what Hopper was doing was so important and then vice versa.

traveling around the country; it was very much a part of Ruscha's work as well. So, what you're seeing here is a painting by Ruscha called Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas,

The Standard station in the Hopper photograph and then down there, with Ruscha. Ruscha also

But Ruscha also made his own films during this period, and the first one he made was called Crackers.

Something that was interesting about Ruscha is that he was making paintings, he was making drawings and prints, he was making books at the same time he was

watching a preview online for Sophia Copola's new movie, and there's a Ruscha in the movie.

And he had a presence in LA, so I moved to LA hoping to meet him, and I ended up meeting him and Ed Ruscha, and Baldessari,

she received her PhD from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Harvard University, and we look forward to hearing Alexandra Schwartz talk about her book, Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles.

Is anyone already familiar with Ed Ruscha's work?

And Ruscha was in a really unique position in that he had one foot in the visual art world and one foot

So, this was happening at the same time that Ruscha was working as a visual artist, as a painter in LA.

And then Dennis Hopper came to this group as well, and eventually, Ruscha.

And he got to know people like Ruscha, other artists at the time.

And then Ruscha.

And because Ruscha's work was so bound up in the Los Angeles cityscape,

who's interested in the art of the period, is that the style of the film was very related to the style of people like Ruscha, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, etc.

The rest of Hopper's life -- Ruscha of course is still

This was one of the first works that Hopper bought and one of the first works that Ruscha sold, so there really was this very close collaboration there.

So these are the only two films that Ruscha did, but I think it was really interesting that at

At the same time, as I mentioned, Ruscha was also dealing directly with Hollywood in his

It's kind of up against a wall, and I met the other day with the main person at Ruscha's gallery, he shows at the Gagosian Gallery, and I was meeting with his main contact there

And then my question was just is he still, is Ruscha still working today and, and what is he working on?