That is Right
Most often associated with West Coast Pop art, Ruscha began making paintings and prints of solitary words and pithy phrases-readable as signs, symbols, or images-as early as 1960, anticipating by nearly a decade the primacy of language in Conceptual art. In the mid-1980s, Ruscha often set words against evocative backgrounds, which he referred to as "suggestors." In this suite of lithographs, light streaming through an unseen window creates a grid-like shadow across the surface.
Artists working with a professional printer designate a satisfactory proof as B.A.T., or bon à tirer (a French term meaning "approved for printing"), before the printing of an edition can begin. The B.A.T. proof thus becomes the standard against which each subsequent print is compared, with the aim of creating a full set of impressions of the same high quality.
Artists working with a professional printer designate a satisfactory proof as B.A.T., or bon à tirer (a French term meaning "approved for printing"), before the printing of an edition can begin. The B.A.T. proof thus becomes the standard against which each subsequent print is compared, with the aim of creating a full set of impressions of the same high quality.
Artwork Details
- Title: That is Right
- Artist: Edward Ruscha (American, born Omaha, Nebraska, 1937)
- Printer: Printed by Ed Hamilton (American, born 1941)
- Publisher: Published by Edward Ruscha (American, born Omaha, Nebraska, 1937)
- Date: 1989
- Medium: B.A.T. proof from the portfolio
- Dimensions: 9 x 11 inches ( 22.9 x 27.9 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: John B. Turner Fund, 2007
- Object Number: 2007.279d
- Rights and Reproduction: © Edward Ruscha
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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