EVENT DETAILS

Cécile Whiting, "Reading Los Angeles With Ed Ruscha"

The UC Irvine Libraries Dept. of Special Collections and Archives invites you to a
special lecture in support of our current exhibit, Sixteen Books by Ed Ruscha:

“Reading Los Angeles With Ed Ruscha”
A lecture by Cécile Whiting, UCI Professor and Chair, Art History, School of
Humanities.

Professor Whiting will give a presentation on the early books of Los Angeles artist
Ed Ruscha. Cécile Whiting (Ph.D. Art History, Stanford) has published and lectured
extensively on art in Southern California in the post-war period. Her book Pop L.A.:
Art and the City in the 1960s (U.C. Press, 2006) was awarded the 21st Eldredge
Prize for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art.

Following the lecture, Steve MacLeod, Public Services Librarian in Special
Collections and Archives, will briefly show other examples from the Libraries'
Artists’ Books collection.

We encourage you to come early to explore the exhibit before the lecture, which is
located just outside of Special Collections and Archives on the fifth floor of
Langson. The exhibit area is open Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm through March 16.

For additional information contact: Steve MacLeod, smacleod@uci.edu, (949) 824-
4967.