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Lot Essay
Executed in 1984, this work will be included in a forthcoming volume of Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper.
"A word on a page, which is also a word painted on a plane, which is also the representation of a word in a picture, becomes a sign, a symbol, and an image, on a ground which is simultaneously a page, a place, and a picture. Even if you start by looking at Edward Ruscha's first collages with their juxtaposed words and images, even if you ask yourself what the late Roland Barthes considered to be the first question, "What is happening here?"
(D. Hickey, "Available Light," The Works of Edward Ruscha, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982, p. 14.)
"A word on a page, which is also a word painted on a plane, which is also the representation of a word in a picture, becomes a sign, a symbol, and an image, on a ground which is simultaneously a page, a place, and a picture. Even if you start by looking at Edward Ruscha's first collages with their juxtaposed words and images, even if you ask yourself what the late Roland Barthes considered to be the first question, "What is happening here?"
(D. Hickey, "Available Light," The Works of Edward Ruscha, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982, p. 14.)