Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.
Featured image, No Title (The Invisible Man’s…), 2010, is reproduced from Raymond Pettibon: Here's Your Irony Back.
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: HERE'S YOUR IRONY BACK, POLITICAL WORKS 1975-2013 is superior in its design and reproduction, on uncoated paper stock appropriate to the art, but is also unavoidably reductive. A glance at the dates of Pettibon's notionally topical drawings shows that his targets are often long past their sell-by dates as subjects for satire-like his early-'80s works sending up hippies and Vietnam protesters. He has a larger goal: to create a commedia dell'America whose stock characters, such as the Artist (Krazy Kat), the Politician (Reagan), the Movie Queen (Joan Crawford), and the Villain (Manson), pitilessly reflects the broken culture that produced them.
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Featured image, No Title (It has in…), 2010, is reproduced from Raymond Pettibon: Here's Your Irony Back, published by Hatje Cantz, David Zwirner and Regen Projects. This superbly biting collection of Pettibon's political works made between 1975 and 2013 features a remarkable essay by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, who concludes, "Pettibon’s decision to develop a new type of dark caricature without laughter follows his dialectical impulse to sabotage the conciliatory consequences of his own inevitable submission to the processes of acculturation. At this particular moment of history, only a realism of utter depravity, that of the subjects as much as that of the subjected, can continue Pettibon’s anti-aesthetic project of dark caricature after laughter." Pettibon will sign copies at BOOKMARC New York next Tuesday night, November 12. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 10.75 x 12.5 in. / 212 pgs / 122 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 ISBN: 9783775737333 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz/David Zwirner/Regen Projects AVAILABLE: 11/30/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Raymond Pettibon: Here's Your Irony Back Political Works 1975-2013
Published by Hatje Cantz/David Zwirner/Regen Projects. Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.
Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.
