Scarce signed artist's book from the artist most associated with the American — and especially Southern California — punk rock scene.
Near fine.
Price: $1,250.00
"Pettibon applies literary and artistic techniques to the preceding generation of American youth and protest culture." — Aarons and Roth
Pettibon's indelible black-and-white images graced LPs and fliers for the likes of the Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedy's, Descendents, Germs, Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Subhumans,Throbbing Gristle, and (most famously) Black Flag - whose name the artist coined. Pettibon's brother Greg Ginn was guitarist for the band and founder of SST Records, under whose auspices most of Pettibon's early books were published and distributed. They unfortunately didn't sell well and — according to the artist — he destroyed most of the remaining copies, leaving only a hundred or so of each issue extant. Pettibon (who's also worked under the names Raymond Pettibone, St. Pettibone, Chuck Higby, Raymond Ginn, and Ray Dylan) remains one of the most provocative and vital artists working today, and one whose influence has grown far past his cult beginnings.
Read more: Ohrt, Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978-98, 34; Aarons and Roth, In Numbers, 395.
First edition. (Lawndale, CA): SST Pubs, (1985). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black-and-white sadle-stapled pictorial self-wrappers. Offset printed. [28] pages, including covers. Numbered 181 in red ink by Pettibon, additionally signed in red by Pettibon to first internal page. Touches of toning to spine. Else bright and sound.
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