Ed Ruscha: Sponge Puddle Amber Accentuated with a red tongue

Accentuated with a red tongue

featuring thirty-five works from the series

and a conversation between Flavin Judd and Alex Gartenfeld—offering readers an expanded understanding of Judd’s work through this understudied facet of his practice

The period inaugurates two major series: the Metro Plots

photography aided in convicting and imprisoning people for crimes they did not commit

Ed Ruscha: Sponge Puddle Amber Accentuated with a red tonguePrinted in Venice, California, by Hamilton Press on Rives BFK paper, this lithograph by Ed Ruscha features one of the majestic mountains that became a dominant motif in his work beginning in the late 1990s. His meticulously super realistic precipices are based on photographs, but he describes them as mountains of the mind, explaining that they function as anonymous backdrops for the drama of words. The juxtaposition of terms limned in the Boy Scout