大约92%的天使，但8%的魔鬼

P07940 Roughly 92% Angel but about 8% Devil 1982

Softground etching 14 1/2 × 15 1/4 (368 × 388) on Somerset paper 24 3/8 × 22 1/2 (618 × 572), printed by Peter Pettengill at Crown Point Press Oakland, California and published by them in an edition of 25

Inscribed ‘Ed Ruscha 82’ b.r. and ‘6/25’; impressed with the printer's stamp

Purchased from Crown Point Press, (Grant-in-Aid) 1983

From the early 1970s Ruscha was making drawings and paintings of single words or short phrases placed against soft unmodulated backgrounds, which took on paradoxical resonance in isolation from their mundane contexts. This etching is printed from two plates, the second half of the title text being superimposed on the first.