| Artist: | Ed Ruscha |
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| Title: | Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas | |
| Date: | 1963 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Signscape | |
| Movement: | Pop Art | |
| Materials: | oil on canvas | |
| Subject: standardization, the gas station that springs upeverywhere, no sense of place; dislocated,disorienting black hole world with artificialspotlights instead of true illumination; thestandard as the anti-sublime; unpeopled, mute,vacant. Style: high design consciousness; simulates the crane shot of films designed to suggest monumentality; hard-edged, streamlined, anti-painterly and anti-subjective; advertizing graphics. Context: mass media and advertising; loss ofindividuality in a world of standardization; the degraded Sublime; nature turned into the signscape, nature turned into culture. | ||
