Change The Code, Keep The Text - Ed Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go...
American artist Ed Ruscha is known for painting words and phrases over top of colorful backgrounds and dramatic mountain landscapes. In many of his works, words are shown, not only as conveyors of meaning, but as objects with solid form. Words in a Ruscha painting "replace the traditional life-model or muse," as Mary Richards writes, and appear prominently in the foreground as the main subject of a painting (49). Commissioned by the Miami-Dade Library (1985 and 1989), Ruscha painted a circular rotunda in the lobby of the building with the sentence: "Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go," a quote from Hamlet, Act III, Scene iii. http://changethecode.com/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
