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OCTOBER 92: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - SPRING 2000
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Sylvia Kolbowski & Carrie Lambert, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 168pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: "The Rock": William Kentridge's Drawings for Projection - Rosalind Krauss; Raymond Pettibon: Return to Disorder and Disfiguration - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; an inadequate history of conceptual art - Silvia Kolbowski; House Work and Art Work - Helen Molesworth; Posing the Phallus - Mignon Nixon; An Art of Missing Parts -Hal Foster; Stops and Starts - Helen Molesworth. A most handsome example. ISSN 0162-2870 Inventory Number: 022200
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BLACK FLAG CONCERT POSTER WITH RAYMOND PETTIBON ARTWORK: DEVONSHIRE DOWNS, NORTHRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1981
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND) (BLACK FLAG). Pettibon, Raymond. NP (Lawndale, CA). ND (1981).: Black Flag. First Printing. 4to. Offset Printed Sheet. Concert Poster. Fine.. One 17 x 11" sheet offset-printed recto only, 1 b&w illustration. This is an original Black Flag poster utilizing the artwork of Raymond Pettibon produced for a September 11th, 1981 gig at Northridge's Devonshire Downs Fairgrounds along with supporting acts Fear, Stains, Youth Gone Mad, and Caustic Cause. Printed in black ink on green paper, it reproduces a drawing by Pettibon of a sprawling graveyard. An exceptionally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon vintage poster (illustrated on page ninety-nine of the Kill Your Idols publication "100 Raymond Pettibon Flyers"). Inventory Number: 026036
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: SELECTED WORKS 1982 TO 2011
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts Staff. Zurich & Geneva, SWITZERLAND: Nieves & Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts, 2014. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np (28pp), 19 b&w illustrations + b&w covers. This is the Raymond Pettibon catalogue cum artist's book published in the 'zine-like format of his eighties SST works issued in conjunction with a 2014 Swiss gallery exhibition of twenty-one drawings executed between 1982 and 2011. A brand new, most handsome example of exceedingly uncommon 2014 first printing with the black and white covers limited to one hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 027517
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: A 2001 SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCEMENT FOR "THE WORKS OF RAYMOND PETTIBON AS READ BY:"
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2001. First Printing. 8vo. Offset Printed Sheet. Exhibition Announcement. As New.. One 8 ¾ X 5 ½" cardstock sheet offset-printed recto and verso, 1 b&w illustration. This is an announcement utilizing a unique artwork drawn by Raymond Pettibon for a June 26th, 2001 event with the artist at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Presented in conjunction with their exhibition "Raymond Pettibon: The Book Show," special guests Iris Berry, S.A. Griffin, Jason Rhoades, Barry Sloane, Frances Stark, Mayo Thompson, Benjamin Weissman, and others read to the Museum audience from Pettibon's scripts. The cover image reproduced here was created especially for this flyer. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 027480
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: FLYERS 2
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond & Bryan Ray Turcotte. NP (Los Angeles): Kill Your Idols, I00230912. 2023. First Edition. 10 x 8", 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np (92pp), 100 color illustrations + color covers. This is the lovingly compiled catalogue of an additional one hundred beautifully reproduced Raymond Pettibon-designed eighties concert flyers and ephemera from the collection of Bryan Ray Turcotte. The vast majority of these were created for Black Flag gigs, but The Minutemen, Red Cross, Circle Jerks, D.O.A., Dead Kennedys, Firehose, Husker Du, Flipper, Meat Puppets, Jack Brewer Band, Henry Rollons and many, many more Punk and Hardcore stalwarts of the era are liberally represented here. A brand new, pristine example of this gritty-yet-lovely document that is completely different in content from Kill Your Idols' previous "Raymond Pettibon: Flyers" from 2017. Inventory Number: 027565
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ONE FOOT IN THE MOUTH, ONE FOOT ON THE SHELF
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond & Nelson Tarpenny. NP: Superflux Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine.. np (36pp), 18 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records. Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon. Limited to one hundred copies, "One Foot in the Mouth, One Foot on the Shelf" is his 1992 Superflux-published artist book cum 'zine collaboration with "Master" Nelson Tarpenny that reproduces eighteen psychologically-charged drawings. A most handsome, guaranteed authentic example of this exceedingly uncommon Pettibon tour de force (entry number one hundred and one in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98") HAND NUMBERED "72/100" in black ink by the artist on the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 025700
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: THINKING OF YOU - SIGNED WITH DRAWINGS BY THE ARTIST
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond & Nelson Tarpenny. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2000. First Edition 1/2000. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (232pp), 153 monochrome illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Thinking of You" is Raymond Pettibon's hefty artist book cum catalogue comprised solely of Phallus drawings with text published in conjunction with the renowned artist's 1999 exhibition held at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. The images are reproduced one to a page - rectos only - with the occasional reproduction on the verso of student papers Mr. Pettibon seemed to be grading as part of teaching duties at Los Angeles Harbor College in the eighties. A bright, most handsome example (entry number one hundred and eight in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978 - 98") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Raymond Pettibon" in black ink on the title page which the artist has then altered by drawing in different faces in the four letters O in the printed title. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-941548-38-4 Inventory Number: 025381
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RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (AKA "Sketchy") & Michael Gira. Lawndale & Hermosa Beach, CA, etc. 1978-2015.: SST Publications, Superflux Publications, Galerie Metropol, Illuminati, Galerie Krinzinger, Parkett, Ooga Booga, Nieves & Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts & David Zwirner Books. First Edition. 8vo + 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Books. Very Good. or Better.. np (most circa 28pp), each profusely illustrated in b&w. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is a collection of fifty-one primarily early artist's books cum 'zines - mostly self-published between 1978 and 2006 via SST and Superflux Publications - by the esteemed Southern California native, Raymond Pettibon. Listed by title in chronological order of publication preceded in parentheses by their entry number in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98" (the last seven were issued following the bibliography and so have publication dates instead), they are: (01) "Captive Chains", (04) "Freud's Universe", (05) "My Struggle For Life After Death", (06) "A New Wave of Violence", (08) "Tripping Corpse 2: The Hippie Thing", (09) "Capricious Missives", (10) "Tripping Corpse 3", (11) "Virgin Fears", (12) "The Bible, the Bottle, and the Bomb", (13) "Console, Heal, Or Depict", (15) "Kismet's Account", (16) "Lana", (17) "Tripping Corpse Four", (18) "Tripping Corpse 5", (19) "American Lynch Law", (20) "A Can At The Crossroads", (21) "Cars, TV, Rockets, H-Bomb - - You Name It", (22) "The Express Sex Train", (23) "Exterminating The Eagles", (24) "Jane's Book Of Fighting", (25) "Just Happy To Be Working", (26) "Like Death Valley", (28) "New Wavy Gravy", (29) "New Wavy Gravy 2 (As Opposed to Old Wavy Gravy)", (30) "The Observable World", (31) "Pig Cupid", (32) "Selfishness", (33) "Short Teats, Bloody Milk", (35) "Tripping Corpse 6", (37) "Wein, Weib, Und Gesang", (40) "Meat Offerings", (45) "Thin, Thin Cross", (51) "Meandering on a Riff", (81) "12 O'Clock Shadow", (84) "From a Tower", (92) "Sweet Luther", (94) "The Train-Watcher", (96) "Writ", (97) "The Cloud of Unreading", (98) "The Language of Romantic Thought", (100) "On The Scent (Vavoom)", (101) "One Foot in the Mouth, One Foot on the Shelf", (103) "Up The Threshold", (105) "Untitled (Justly Felt and Brilliantly Said - A Project for Parkett No. 47)", (2001) "Plot Burial By: Josh Bayer (AKA Sketchy), Raymond Pettibon", (2001) "'S Not Fake! 'S Real!", (2006) "As Always And So On", (2009) "The Major Arteries and the Minor Tributes", (2014) "Raymond Pettibon: Selected Works 1982 to 2011", (2015) "Raymond Pettibon + Mike Topp: Born On A Train" - SIGNED by both artists, and (2016) "Dzama / Pettibon" - second expanded edition. A most handsome group - all of which are in at least Very Good condition - of these wryly transgressive, seminal publications. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 021812
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THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANTIC THOUGHT BY RAYMOND PETTIBON
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Victor Gastelum & Josh Bayer (aka "Sketchy"). NP: Superflux Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (36pp), 18 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records. Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon. Limited to one hundred copies, "The Language of Romantic Thought" is his 1992 Superflux-published artist book cum 'zine collaboration that reproduces twenty psychologically-charged drawings. An internaly most handsome, guaranteed authentic example of this exceedingly uncommon Pettibon tour de force (entry number ninety-eight in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98") HAND NUMBERED "18/100" in blue ink by the artist on the front cover, as issued, showing a half-dozen small oily brown droplets mildly staining the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025699
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THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANTIC THOUGHT BY RAYMOND PETTIBON
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Victor Gastelum & Josh Bayer (aka "Sketchy"). NP: Superflux Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine.. np (36pp), 18 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records. Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon. Limited to one hundred copies, "The Language of Romantic Thought" is his 1992 Superflux-published artist book cum 'zine collaboration that reproduces twenty psychologically-charged drawings. A most handsome, guaranteed authentic example of this exceedingly uncommon Pettibon tour de force (entry number ninety-eight in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98") HAND NUMBERED "12/100" in blue ink by the artist on the front cover, as issued, showing some mild creasing to the lower foredge corner of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025698
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MY STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Victor Gastelum & Josh Bayer (aka "Sketchy"). Lawndale, CA: SST Publications, 1982. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (32pp), 26 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records. Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon. "Limited to five hundred copies (of which some four hundred were destroyed)", "My Struggle for Life After Death" is his 1982 SST artist book cum 'zine that reproduces twenty-six psychologically-charged drawings. A most handsome, guaranteed authentic example of this uncommon, early Pettibon tour de force (entry number five in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98") HAND NUMBERED "202" in red ink by the artist on the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 025688
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HELTER SKELTER: L.A. ART IN THE 1990S - SIGNED BY PARTICIPATING ARTISTS CHRIS BURDEN, MIKE KELLEY, PAUL McCARTHY, MANUEL OCAMPO, CHARLES RAY AND MEGAN WILLIAMS
Schimmel, Paul, Norman M. Klein & Lane Relyea. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1992. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. 182pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Mr. Keedy. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Over twenty-five years later, Paul Schimmel's sprawling early nineties survey of the crème de la crème of younger to mid-career Los Angeles artists pushing the edge seems almost prescient in its choices for benediction. In its clever catalogue, the work of Chris Burden, Meg Cranston, Victor Estrada, Llyn Foulkes, Richard Jackson, Mike Kelley, Liz Larner, Paul McCarthy, Manuel Ocampo, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Nancy Rubins, Jim Shaw, Megan Williams, and Robert Williams is juxtaposed with literary contributions by Charles Bukowski, Michelle T. Clinton, Dennis Cooper, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Amy Gerstler, Jim Krusoe, Bia Lowe, Rita Valencia, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Benjamin Weissman. A bright, most handsome unique example of this always in-demand document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "M. Kelley 1992", "Paul McCarthy", "Charles Ray", "Chris Burden", "Megan Williams", and "Manuel Jesus Ocampo" - with his small drawing of a face and foot" at the exhibition opening in black ink on the title page and its verso. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-914357-27-1 Inventory Number: 026515