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October, 1994
Armstrong: How did you first know about Duchamp? Was it through art school? Ruscha: I think it was in a book, a reproduction of the Nude Descending a Staircase. It was as if there were an asterisk on that picture; his Nude Descending a Staircase was such a spectacle at the time that you remembered it for that. That was part of its value.
Ed Ruscha, Bruce Conner, Elizabeth Armstrong +2 more
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ED RUSCHA, HEIDEGGER, AND DEADPAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Art History, 2009
The word most often used to describe Ed Ruscha's photographic books – and a good stretch of conceptual and post‐conceptual photography in the wake of his practice – is ‘deadpan’. The ambition of this essay is to see if this term has any purchase on what makes this photographic work so compelling.
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Ed Ruscha's One-Way Street

October, 2005
Edward Ruscha arrived in Los Angeles in 1956, delivered by the car trip he and high school friend Mason Williams took in Ruscha's black 1950 Ford from Oklahoma to the suburban-like stretch of a rapidly developing L.A. Over the next seven years, Ruscha drove the distance between L.A.
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