Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (October Books)

474 Pages·2002·9.45 MB·English

by  Ed Ruscha

     
L A I S
OCTOBER Books
George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster,
Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Mignon Nixon, and Malcolm Turvey,
editors, and Catherine de Zegher, executive editor
Broodthaers,edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism,edited by Douglas Crimp
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille,by Denis Hollier
Painting as Model,by Yve-Alain Bois
The Destruction of Tilted Arc: Documents,edited by Clara Weyergraf-Serra and Martha Buskirk
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century,by Jonathan Crary
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture,by Slavoj Zˇizˇek
Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima,by Nagisa Oshima
The Optical Unconscious,by Rosalind E. Krauss
Gesture and Speech,by André Leroi-Gourhan
Compulsive Beauty,by Hal Foster
Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris,by Robert Morris
Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists,by Joan Copjec
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture,by Kristin Ross
Kant after Duchamp,by Thierry de Duve
The Duchamp Effect,edited by Martha Buskirk and Mignon Nixon
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century,by Hal Foster
October: The Second Decade, 1986–1996,edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Yve-
Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, and Sylvia Kolbowski
Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910–1941,by David Joselit
Caravaggio’s Secrets,by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875,by Carol Armstrong
Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1965 to 1975,
by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Bachelors,by Rosalind Krauss
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture,by Jonathan Crary
Andy Warhol,edited by Annette Michelson
Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages,by Ed Ruscha, edited and
with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents,edited by Tom McDonough
     
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E R
  A S
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruscha, Edward.
Leave any information at the signal : writings, interviews, bits, pages / by Ed Ruscha ; edited and
with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz.
p. cm.
“An October book”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-18220-3 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Ruscha, Edward—Interviews. 2. Artists—United States—Interviews. 3. Ruscha, Edward—
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. I. Schwartz, Alexandra. II. Title.
N6537.R87 A35 2002
760(cid:1).092—dc21
2001045039
C
I  A xiii
Alexandra Schwartz
PART ONE WRITINGS 1
S  “‘W C S’: S
 L A,” C  H H 3
S  “T A  P:
A S” 4
“S   ‘654 T . . .’ L” 6
S  H H, 50 WEST COAST
ARTISTS 10
S  “P: A S” 12
A P  E R  
C R    L  
N M-D P L, A 1985 14
A P  E R  
A L   S  T
F   M-D P L,
A 1987 16
C
“T W” 18
S  “W A L  
A T L W T D’ K W,”
C  P G 19
PART TWO INTERVIEWS 21
“C VARIOUS SMALL FIRES: E
R D H P P” 23
John Coplans
“F C S, M. R E A” 28
Douglas M. Davis
“E R D H L W 
C F” 30
Christopher Fox
I  T T, M 27, 1971 34
“A: I  E R” 35
Robert Colacello
“R  P [ A B U]” 40
David Bourdon
“‘M B E U   T’” 46
A.D. Coleman
“‘I’ N R  P’” 51
A.D. Coleman
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C
“W  R” 55
Howardena Pindell
“‘ . . . A K   H?’: A I 
E R” 64
Willoughby Sharp
“F I: E R” 73
Diane Spodarek
“A C  E R” 82
Trina Mitchum
I  E R  H
W A, H S 92
Paul Karlstrom
“E R: A I” 210
Henri Man Barendse
L.A. SUGGESTED BY THE ART OF EDWARD
RUSCHA 220
“E R, Y A: D S
 B N” 225
Patricia Failing
“C U  E R” 238
Lewis MacAdams
“A C  E R” 242
Robert Landau and John Pashdag
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C
A E  “A: L.A.R.T.: E
R” 247
Joan Quinn
“I  E R” 250
Bernard Brunon
“P: A I  E R” 252
Jana Sterbak
“A F W  E R” 257
Vicki Sanders
“E R: G  V  A T” 259
Ralph Rugoff
“E R” 262
Fred Fehlau
“R   C: E R’ O
A I D A” 269
Chris Hunter
“T S M T  E
R” 272
Kristine McKenna
“E R” 274
Bill Berkson
“E R” 281
Thomas Beller
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C
“H P” 286
Victoria Lautman
“A I  E R” 288
Bonnie Clearwater
“T L W” 296
Ralph Rugoff
“C  E R” 300
Bernard Blistène
“G  R  E R” 309
Suzanne Muchnic
“A C  W H 
E (cid:25), W H K E
O S  E 1960, T P 
S 26, 1992” 312
Walter Hopps
“A I  E R,” J 17, 1994 329
Elizabeth Armstrong
“P H N R-” 332
Guy Cross
“P A  L E 
I” 336
Steven Rosen
“L M S  P . . .” 338
Steven Rosen
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