Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius & Me

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This book was published on the occasion of Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius & Me, an exhibition of works by Ed Ruscha and Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864–1941) at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. Ruscha’s Spied Upon Scene series of paintings, begun in 2017, depicts majestic mountainscapes resembling the idyllic ranges of travel books, adventure movies, or the Paramount Pictures logo. These vistas, visible through oval-shaped lenses or window grids, seem to refer to the nineteenth-century tradition of picturing the…