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Raymond Pettibon : Plots Laid Thick»rank: 1503623by: Raymond Pettibon
: :Raymond Pettibon's comic-like illustrations, complete with dark, enigmatic, and often ironic captions, have won him a large following among fans of Pop Art. This artist's book combines a selection of his drawings with a collection of his writings, including previously unpublished movie scipts and plays, for a unique, multidisciplinary approach to an artist whose work has been exhibited both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and on a Sonic Youth album cover. |
Masters of American Comics»rank: 485353from: Yale University Press
: :Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists—ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware—who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed ... |
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Raymond Pettibon: V-Boom»rank: 666331by: Raymond Pettibon
: :Raymond Pettibon is one of the most distinctive and highly regarded American artists of his generation. In the thousands of drawings he has produced over the last two decades, Pettibon stakes out a thematic territory that combines the bright, shiny world of American mass culture with its darkly complex undertows. Pettibon's imagery largely derives from the world of cartoons and popular culture: surfers, trains, baseball players, and cartoon characters. His prolific skill lies in his ability to make powerful and poetic associations between word and image. An avid reader, he isolates a phrase or word and inserts it into his drawing, not as a commentary but as an active graphic ... |
Raymond Pettibon: Here's Your Irony Back»rank: 110805by: Benjamin Buchloh, Raymond Pettibon
: :Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has radically blurred the boundaries of 'high' and 'low.' His obsessively worked drawings draw freely from myriad sources that span the cultural spectrum. The resulting highly poetic constructions function as acute and authentic reflections of contemporary society. Since September 11, 2001, Pettibon's focus has grown increasingly political--as evidenced by his 2006 and 2007 exhibitions at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and David Zwirner gallery in New York, respectively. This probing catalogue of those shows includes a text by the esteemed contemporary art historian Benjamin Buchloh. Raymond Pettibon was born in 1957 in Tucson, Arizona, and currently ... |
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(In Search of) the Perfect Lover: Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon»rank: 939535by: Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Michaela Unterdörfer
: :Notwithstanding their considerable differences and individuality--one would hardly expect them to have a lover in common--Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon share an artistic intent to explore eroticism and sexuality. Each artist deals, in his or her own stylistic way, with the intense physical states of ecstasy, passion, conflict and fear. Working through the medium of drawing--the 'medium of the mind'--they trace themselves, scribing pictorial metaphors of an alternately tender, aggressive, attached, forceful and even erotic confrontation with the material. Creativity, itself never free from conflict, undresses itself in drawings that touch on obsession, desire and the pleasures of eroticism. (In Search of) The Perfect Lover groups ... |
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnof»rank: 901042by: Eugen Blume, Peter Fischli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray
: :This is, quite possibly, one of the world's best designed art books. Featured within its pages are works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection--one of the world's most significant (and yes, controversial) collections of contemporary art. But this book doesn't merely present some 400 works by 40 artists, it also seeks, through its design, to provide an individual stage--or section--for each artist in order to highlight the artist's philosophy, or to play off of his or her signature works of art. For example, Raymond Pettibon's comic-like drawings unfold to a newspaper-sized spread, while Gordon Matta-Clark's opening page has a split in it that corresponds perfectly to the cut-out in the ... |
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Otto Dix / Raymond Pettibon: Traue deinen Augen [Trust your Eyes]»rank: 1088214by: Ingebord Kahler, Ulrike Rudiger, Otto Dix, Raymond Pettibon
: :Edited by Hans-Werner Schmidt. Essays by Ingeborg Kahler, Roberto Ohrt and Ulrike Rudiger. |
Funny Cuts»rank: 1270412by: Takashi Murakami, Kassandra Nakas, Ulrich Pfarr, Andreas Schalhorn, Angela Bulloch, Inka Essenhigh, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Yoshitaka Amano, Marcel Dzama, Tim Eitel, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoshitomo Nara, Julian Opie, Philippe Parreno, Raymond Pettibon, Wilhelm Sasnal
: :As its point of departure,Funny Cuts takes, as its point of departure, Pop Art's revolutionary referencing of comics and concludes with the most current trends in contemporary art, reflecting in many diverse ways its dialogue with the commercial and trivial picture worlds of comics and cartoons. Pop Art artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were ground-breaking in their provocative confrontation with high and low art using motifs and references from popular comics. In the 1970s, American comics dealt with taboo subjects like sexuality and violence--here, for the first time, the subversive potential and the psychological content of comic worlds were used creatively in in fine art. Within the context ... |
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Magic Hour, The: The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas»rank: 1324117by: Libby Lumpkin, David Batchelor, Reverend Ethan Acres, Dave Hickey, Philip Argent, Tim Bavington, Jane Callister, Karen Carson, E. Chen, Jane Hilton, Jim Isermann, Liberace, Silke Otto-Knapp, Victoria Reynolds, Yek, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Pettibon, David Reed, Jim Shaw, Alex Farquharson, Ralph Rugoff, Robert Venturi
: :Is Las Vegas, the capital of the Western entertainment complex, also set to become the capital of art? A large number of artists live there or visit often, Venice was partially reconstructed there, and the Bellagio resort and casino house an art collection that includes El Grecos and Picassos promoted as if they were Frank Sinatra or the Beach Boys. At this historic moment, art is losing the visionary power to which it used to lay claim and is instead drawing closer to the forms of the entertainment industry, from lifestyle and game shows to Hollywood cinema and music videos. In a paradoxical turn of events, the society of the ... |
Thinking of You»rank: 1859250by: Raymond Pettibon
: :Is Las Vegas, the capital of the Western entertainment complex, also set to become the capital of art? A large number of artists live there or visit often, Venice was partially reconstructed there, and the Bellagio resort and casino house an art collection that includes El Grecos and Picassos promoted as if they were Frank Sinatra or the Beach Boys. At this historic moment, art is losing the visionary power to which it used to lay claim and is instead drawing closer to the forms of the entertainment industry, from lifestyle and game shows to Hollywood cinema and music videos. In a paradoxical turn of events, the society of the ... |