Ed Ruscha on Untitled (Beetles)

In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Here, artist Ed Ruscha, the subject of a major MoMA retrospective, provides a look into how Johannes Theodor Baargeld (Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Gruenwald)’s multidimensional drawing Untitled (Beetles) inspired Ruscha’s unconventional approach to art.

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