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Ed Ruscha Clock without Hands , 2011 Acrylic on canvas, 32 × 20 in. Private collection
Many of Ruscha’s works take the everyday and commonplace as their subject. Visual puns—characteristic of his dry, irreverent wit as an artist— are also an important strategy. Here, as the title of the painting suggests, an ordinary household object has been rendered comically defunct. No longer able to designate time—which is simultaneously frozen and lengthened into eternity—the clock’s hands are piled at the bottom of the canvas. —HJ
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