Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now Gillian Pistell This book was published on

This book was published on the occasion of elective affinities: Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection

and handwritten notes

and the blues

and prints—is one of his signature motifs

an eighteen-color lithograph

Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now Gillian Pistell This book was published onThis Was Then This Is Now is a lithograph by Ed Ruscha published by Vermillion Editions Limited. The titular phrase is rendered in Boy Scout Utility Modern, an unembellished typeface of the artists own design, and set in stark white over a stormy sky of layered gray tones printed with thirteen different plates. The dramatic light and celestial atmosphere of the backdrop suggest the credits of a vintage film, imbuing the familiar motto with a sense of