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(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond. Mela Davila & Roland Groenenboom, Editors. Barcelona SPAIN: Actar & Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2002. First Edition. 8vo. Flexible Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np, (448pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Ramon Prat and Montse Sagarra. Published in conjunction with a massive 2002 retrospective held at the Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, this comprehensive, copiously illustrated survey of Raymond Pettibon's wry works on pape contains nearly three hundred full page reproductions. Interspersed are fourteen texts by the artist that feature Batman, Superman and Robin scenarios that D.C. never dreamed of, as well as the transcribed shooting scripts for Pettibon's 1989 self-directed videos; "Sir Drone" and "The World is Watching: Weatherman '69" (which starred Mike Kelley, Mike Watt, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore, among others). A bright, most handsome example of the English language edition. 84-95273-97-7 Inventory Number: 026142