Ed Ruscha: Dedication Stones Kristine McKenna This book was published on

This book was published on the occasion of Nam June Paik: The Late Style at Gagosian

Produced by Ligne Blanche in Paris

cloaked in shadow or suddenly illuminated by a shaft of daylight

a reference to the ancient Roman poet Catullus

The print’s subject derives from a snapshot in Ruscha’s first artist’s book

Ed Ruscha: Dedication Stones Kristine McKenna This book was published onThis book was published on the occasion of Ed Ruscha: Dedication Stones, a special exhibition of new drawings by the artist in Saanen, Switzerland. In each of the drawings, Ruscha renders a different short word or symbol containing the letter x, which for him represents the ultimate variable, an endlessly adaptable surrogate for other ideas. It is also a literal component of the terms and names he illustratesBix, Mix, Fix, Tax, and so on. But while