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L.A.: as suggested by the art of Edward Ruscha

United States, 1981
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Edward Ruscha’s paintings, drawings and photographs are the point of departure for this impressionistic study of Los Angeles’ buildings, apartment..

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

United States of America, 2003
Similarity: 71%

Streamlines

United Kingdom, 1996
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Stations of the elevated

United States, 1980
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Landscape & cityscape

United States, 1984
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The Empire of signs

United Kingdom, 1996
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Wave from Atlantic

United Kingdom, 1996
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Lights, Camera, Los Angeles

United States, 1989
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Mapping a city of fragments v.2

United States, 1997
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Fire of time

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Painting the Town

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Art of the sixties

United States, 1967
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Lines and volumes

France, 1997
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The Photographer

United States, 1948
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N.Y., N.Y.: a day in New York

United States, 1958
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San Francisco; Hollywood; Beverly Hills

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Painters painting (TEFC)

United States, 1972
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The Image of the city

Unknown
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The Art of the real: U.S.A. 1948 to 1968

United States, 1969
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