Ed Ruscha: History Kids Sinead Madden features a detail of the

features a detail of the 1983 painting Horn Players by Jean-Michel Basquiat

This biography of Helen Frankenthaler by art historian Alexander Nemerov paints an exhilarating picture of the art scene in 1950s New York

It also includes an essay by Rene Ricard that positions the works in the context of classical Greek and Roman art

in the Tyrolean Alps

and Spanish with an array of signature images scrawled in bright colors

Ed Ruscha: History Kids Sinead Madden features a detail of theThis eight color lithograph, printed in Venice, California, by Hamilton Press on Rives BFK paper, brings together three important constants of Ed Ruschas practice: a Hollywood worthy sunset; a beguilingly ambiguous phrase (is kids a noun or a verb?), presented in the artists own no nonsense Boy Scout Utility Modern typeface; and a hulking snowcapped mountain, one of his principal motifs of the past twenty five years. Although the exacting hyperrealism