Raymond Pettibon: To Wit
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989980944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Buy To Wit, a book chronicling the artist's temporary studio in the David Zwirner gallery last summer, so you can tear out the pages and frame them. (The Editors New York Magazine)
FINALLY an exhibition catalog for Raymond Pettibon "To Wit" I loved Raymond Pettibon: To Wit, the artist’s recent solo show at David Zwirner, and this beautifully designed exhibition catalog allows me to relive it, but with more insight! The DIY nature of the physical book—the cover is a cardboard. ONE OF THE BEST PETTIBON BOOKS PUBLISHED SO FAR I love this Raymond Pettibon book. To Wit captures the sprit of his most recent exhibition and has a rougher, DIY feel than some of the other books that have come out recently. It really reflects his artistic persona. It helps that this book is based
The works ranged from depictions of Joe DiMaggio as a young boy, Bob Dylan and the comic strip character Bazooka Joe to pieces dovetailing popular imagery with quotations from Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert or the Bible, and addressing themes of violence, humor, sex, evolution, religion, politics, literature, youth, art history and sports. In the summer of 2013, Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) converted the David Zwirner exhibition space into an improvised studio, in order to prepare the drawings and collages for his critically acclaimed show at the gallery. This volume documents both the making of these works during