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Raymond Pettibon

A Reader

 
 

1998, 252 pp., 56 b/w illus., paperback
ISBN 087633-120-7
 
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  Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Peter Scheldahl, Ann Temkin, Hamza Walker, and Bernard Welt

This book offers 62 writings by authors of all shapes, sizes and religious outlooks. In a sense, this is a Great Books introduction to Pettibon's world, one in which the texts neither illustrate nor explicate Pettibon's sources, but offer instead a revealing look at the narratives and voices that influence his singular tales of loves, lives, and metaphors gone wrong. Long known as a voracious reader of eclectic and expansive tastes, Pettibon's reading list includes St. Augustine, Beckett, Benjamin, Eisenstein, Flaubert, H?lo?se, Pater, Proust, Spillane, Swift and Wittgenstein, to name only a few. Complementing this anthology are five thoughtful essays on Pettibon's own uniquely literary oeuvre.

Published in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, distributed for resale through Distributed Art Publishers


   
   
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