Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Editions de Montbliart in a chipboard slipcase

in a chipboard slipcase

This poster featuring Homage to a Government—The Dwelling Place (2006) was produced in 2007

ensuring no two pieces are alike

Francis Picabia

Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Editions de Montbliart in a chipboard slipcasePublished by Vermillion Editions Limited, this hand pulled 13 color lithograph by Ed Ruscha sets the wording of its title against an ominous cloudy sky. Ruscha has used the immediately recognizable Boy Scout Utility Modern, an unembellished typeface of his own design, to render the prints gnomic yet familiar idiom. The highly atmospheric backdrop shadows the motto with a cinematic tension that causes it to oscillate between optimistic and pessimistic