The Bride and the Bachelors Robert Farris Thompson as well as two other

as well as two other paintings from the show

and a selected exhibition history

Their silhouetted shapes act as positive images

The exhibition presented Ruscha’s own version of Kerouac’s Beat bible—a leather-bound book that includes the full text accompanied by black-and-white photographic illustrations that refer closely to details from the story

and installation photography

The Bride and the Bachelors Robert Farris Thompson as well as two otherThis revised and expanded edition of Calvin Tomkinss The Bride and the Bachelors features a new chapter examining the life and work of Jasper Johns and a preface written by the author. The original edition, released in 1965, included chapters on Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, and Robert Rauschenberg. Its subtitle, The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art, conveyed the challenges that the work of these artists presented to viewers at the time.