Raymond Pettibon: A Reader
Edited by Ann Temkin and Hamza Walker. Contributions by Anne d’Harnoncourt and Susanne Ghez
Raymond Pettibon is famed for the breadth and depth of his reading: his art draws on it (excuse pun) at every turn. This anthology of Pettibon\s favorite authors assembles an eclectic mix, from Charles Baudelaire to Borges, and Charles Manson to Mickey Spillane. Pettibon\s choice of literary resources opens up interesting angles on his work, and his transformation of those resources is fascinating. \"There is something in my storyteller\s art that wants to put the reader and the writer on equal footing in the role of the creator,\" Pettibon says; the Pettibon Reader assists his fans in that endeavor.
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Artists: Raymond Pettibon
Contributors: Anne d’Harnoncourt, , Ann Temkin, Hamza Walker
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780876331200
Retail: $55
Status: Out Of Print
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957, Tucson) is known for his work that embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary, ranging from punchy and political to high literary and extremely poetic.
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