Ed Ruscha: Dedication Stones

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This 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 illustrates—Bix, Mix, Fix, Tax, and so on. But while Ruscha engages with the words as abstract lingual units…