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Title: Raymond Pettibon: A Reader by Raymond Pettibon, Ann Temkin, Hamza Walker ISBN: 0-87633-120-7 Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I didn't even know he'd become this famous...
Comment: As someone who first encountered Raymond Pettibon's alarming artwork on the covers of Black Flag and Minutemen LPs I'd bought in the late 80s, I sort of assumed that, by now, he'd sunk back into even more obscurity than he was subject to then. Imagine my surprise when I picked up this thing in a secondhand bookshop in Dublin - an anthology of various writings over the last few thousand years (the oldest extract is from the "Wisdom of Solomon", the most recent is a truly scary extract from Charles Manson's trial testimony), interspersed with Pettibon drawings, and with a good handful of critical essays on the man's work from, like, Serious Critics. The whole was published to coincide with an exhibition of the man's work organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. I mean, this man did the cover for "Slip It In". Something very odd is going on.
But Pettibon has truly paid his dues, what with years of turning out small handmade zines and what can't have been especially remunerative cover artwork from that least MTV of bands, Black Flag. So if he's suddenly become a major American artist, good luck to him.
The extracts are a fascinating lot. There are some old favourites like Borges' "The Library of Babel" and Walter Benjamin's fond account of being a book collector, "Unpacking my Library." There's a gory bit of Mickey Spillane and a beady-eyed extract from Cornel Woolrich's "Rear Window". There are also Swift, Johnson, Coleridge, Robert Burton, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Catullus, Mary Baker Eddy, Hart Crane and many, as they say, more. If nothing else, this is a splendid companion for a medium-length train journey through purgatory.
The Pettibon drawings range from his sardonic early work to his more enigmatic recent stuff, and are all excellent. The critical essays are mostly very good, too, although there's a characteristically obtuse piece by Benjamin Buchloh in which the art-mag jargon seems not so much written as stamped out of tin. (To balance this, there's also a gruesomely funny piece by someone called "Bernard Welt" that could stand as a good short story, and for all I know really is one.)
Pettibon is notoriously prolific, and it's a shame that there's a lot more other-people's-text in here than his drawings, but this is still a great book, and stakes a good claim for his "status" in the "art world", whatever that means. Hardcore is alive and well and selling for hundreds of dollars to private collectors in Zurich, apparently.
Rating: 4
Summary: under false pretenses
Comment: OK... So I didn't actually read this book. I just thought I would write to say that I really enjoy Pettibon's artwork, and I recommend customers to buy the book, even if it's just for some cool visual material. Enjoy! Maybe one day I will too!
Rating: 5
Summary: I am a fan
Comment: In the gray mist in Reykjavik I found this book by pettibon in the Mál og menning bookstore I was very happy to get it and i treasure it for a comfortable and inspiring reading.
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Title: Raymond Pettibon : Plots Laid Thick by Raymond Pettibon ISBN: 8495273977 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Otto Dix / Raymond Pettibon: Traue deinen Augen [Trust your Eyes] by Hans-Werner Schmidt, Otto Dix, Raymond Pettibon, Ingebord Kahler, Ulrike Rudiger ISBN: 3933040671 Publisher: Kerber Christof Verlag Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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