Photogravure with silkscreened text
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882" aria-label="More by Edward Ruscha" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Ruscha</a>
Do As Told or Suffer Country Cityscapes
ARTIST ROOMS 
Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
cinema
contrast
countries and continents
danger
defacement
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
history
inscriptions
landscape
leisure and pastimes
mountain
music and entertainment
photographic
phrase
places
politics and society
snow
society: American Old West, 19th c.
symbols and personifications
tree
universal concepts
USA
weather
<p>The titles of the works in this series are not visible in the images, but appear to have been blanked out, obscuring the landscape behind. These titles are aggressive cowboy catch-phrases from the Western movie genre. Ruscha suggests how cultural stereotypes affect the way we see the North American landscape. These clichés are often generated in mass-media producing cities, such as Los Angeles.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2019</em></p>
paper print photogravure silkscreened text
22 February 2013 – 22 May 2013
2013-05-22
22 February 2013 – 22 May 2013
2013-05-22
2013-02-22
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2013-02-22
ARTIST ROOMS 2013: Ed Ruscha
Loan-out
22 July 2019 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
22 July 2019 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
2019-07-22
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2019-07-22
AR Ed Ruscha
Collection based display
Do As Told or Suffer (Country Cityscapes series)
unconfirmed: 457 × 356 mm
Frame: 510 × 407 × 37mm
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Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
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<p>The titles of the works in this series are not visible in the images, but appear to have been blanked out, obscuring the landscape behind. These titles are aggressive cowboy catch-phrases from the Western movie genre. Ruscha suggests how cultural stereotypes affect the way we see the North American landscape. These clichés are often generated in mass-media producing cities, such as Los Angeles.</p>
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cinema contrast countries and continents danger defacement emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities history inscriptions landscape leisure and pastimes mountain music and entertainment photographic phrase places politics and society snow society: American Old West, 19th c. symbols and personifications tree universal concepts USA weather