List of Contents

Ed Ruscha

Issue No.
106

Ed Ruscha

May, 2008

Cover:

Ed Ruscha, Boss, 1961, oil on canvas, 71 1/8 x 67 1/8". Photograph courtesy Edward Ruscha Studio, Venice, California.

Bordernotes

Slowly, from the moon

Meeka Walsh

    My grandmother was born here, in Canada, in 1893. She was almost 100 years old when she died. In the course of her almost century-long life I don’t think she ever acquired a camera,...

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Borderviews

Masker Aid: Patrick Lundeen

What to Do with an Asterisk?: Victoria Cheung

Crying Time Again: Daniel Barrow

Freedom's Just Another Word for Everything Left to Say: Richard Williams

Column

Playing with Film: Nightwatching, directed by Peter Greenaway

Robert Enright

Interviews

The Painted Whirred: Ed Ruscha's Spin on LanguageThe Painted Whirred: Ed Ruscha's Spin on Language

Interview by Robert Enright

    Words, and the letters they’re made from, are a personal matter to Ed Ruscha, who has come to be regarded as one of the most influential artists to have emerged in the 1960s. More...

View MoreA Woman for All Seasons: An Interview with Françoise SullivanA Woman for All Seasons: An Interview with Françoise Sullivan

Interview by Robert Enright

    In 1948 Françoise Sullivan, who was 23 years old, set out with Jean-Paul Riopelle and Maurice Perron to perform and document a dance in the snow-covered landscape around Mont-St-Hilaire, Quebec. It was a unique...

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Articles

Quasi Models: Thising and Thating in the World of Geoffrey Farmer

Lee Henderson

Sympatico for the Devil

John Kissick

Art Pages

Richard Williams

Crossovers

1973: Sorry, Out of Gas

James D. Campbell

iCuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today

Tracy Valcourt

Subconscious City

Amy Karlinsky

Jasper Johns

Randall Anderson

Lida Abdul

Christopher Olson

Elspeth Pratt

Robin Laurence

Adrienne Spier

Gary Michael Dault

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century

Mark Clintberg

Landscape x 4: Geoffrey James, Alex Cameron, Jennifer Stead, Kelly Richardson

Petra Halkes

...Urbanization brings out a nostalgia for pastoral and wild landscapes; with 80% of Canadians now living in urban centres, the continuing popularity of landscape art in mainstream culture is not surprising. Contemporary artists, however, have...

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Brendan Fernandes

Portia Priegert

Framing Identity: Social Practices of Photography in Canada 1880-1920 by Susan Close

Sigrid Dahle

Exponential Future

Christopher Brayshaw

Derek Sullivan

Cliff Eyland

Matthew Brown

Sean Alward

Harold Klunder

Virginia Dixon

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