November 12, 2010

75 Reasons to Live: Whitney Chadwick on Ed Ruscha

by Whitney Chadwick

Art historian Whitney Chadwick talks about Ed Ruscha’s book Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). She recalls how, during her student years at the San Francisco Art Institute, the book’s “bland banality” and affectless style led her to question her assumptions about art.

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