Research Catalog

Title

Raymond Pettibon : surfers 1985-2015.

Author

Pettibon, Raymond, 1957-

Publication

New York, New York ; Venus Over Manhattan : David Zwirner, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Venus Over Manhattan (Gallery)

Description

135 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) has created a vocabulary of characters that reappear consistently across his oeuvre. The most poetic and revealing of these may be the surfer, the solitary longboarder challenging a massive wave. This revised and expanded edition of 'Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2015', the first printing of which sold out almost immediately upon publication in 2014, features 20 additional works, as well as new color separations and jacket design. Nearly all the works depict an ocean roiling with chaotic swells, accompanied by non sequiturs, quotations and bits of poetry in the artist's handwriting. Organized chronologically, the publication traces the surfer series, from early small-scale monochrome India ink drawings to numerous examples from the 1990s when the artist introduced color, culminating with his recent large-scale works, some of which were executed directly on a wall. Rounding out the publication is a meditation by the writer Carlo McCormick.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Surfers 1985-2015

Subject

• Pettibon, Raymond, 1957- > Exhibitions
• Pettibon, Raymond, 1957-
• Surfing in art > Exhibitions
• Surfing in art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "For first edition, project coordinators: Anne Bruder, Anna Furney, Alexander Whitehead, Annie Won, designer and editor, Joshua Shaddock; for second edition, project manager: Todd Bradway, designer: Matthew Polhamus"--Colophon.
• "Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2015 is a revised and expanded edition of the catalogue originally published on the occasion of the exhibition Are your motives pure? Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985-2013, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, April 3-May 17, 2014."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Adam Lindemann -- Waveform: riding the sublime to the song of the sea / Carlo McCormick -- Surfers 1985-2015 -- Installation views, Venus Over Manhattan, 2014 -- List of works.

ISBN

• 9781941701157
• 1941701159

LCCN

^^2015934614

OCLC

910702875

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library