Ed Ruscha and the Great American West contraception a woman receiving a visit

a woman receiving a visit from her friend

together with their allies and collaborators - such figures as Marinetti

alongside the traumas of their more recent history

Can she find joy and redemption here after all

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West contraception a woman receiving a visitThe renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West, especially as experienced from the automobilegas stations, billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of