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Self-Service—Milan, New Mexico
Edward Ruscha American
Not on view
This intentionally mundane work by the Los Angeles–based painter and printmaker, Ed Ruscha, appears in Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), the first of sixteen landmark photographic books he published between 1963 and 1978. The volume established the artist’s reputation as a conceptual minimalist with a mastery of typography, an appreciation for seriality and documentary practice, and a deadpan sense of humor. Early on, he was influenced by the photographs of Walker Evans. "What I was after," said Ruscha, "was no-style or a non-statement with a no-style."
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