COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001191
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aahi0001191
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Work Title (display):
Untitled (Since You Can't)
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1983
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2007-12-06
Work Creator (display):
Raymond Pettibon (American, born 1957)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American draughtsman. He completed his BFA at UCLA, CA, in 1977. He is best known for acerbic drawings that pitilessly critique contemporary culture. Using the comic-book format of images with text, he began his career creating photocopied fanzines. Taking as one of his primary themes the failure of the 1960s' subculture to resist authority, he savaged the hippy ethos, such as in an untitled drawing (1984; see 1995 exh. cat., p. 14) depicting a man resembling Charles Manson holding a bloodied knife near some dismembered feet; the text reads 'somebody lit up a joint'. Distinguishing his work from the conceptual art that preceded him, Pettibon combined text and image to poetic and darkly lyrical ends rather than for intellectual or philosophical purposes. His use of text has more in common with that of Jenny Holzer or Barbara Kruger, in that the speaking voice seldom comes from one stable absolute position. Instead the text reads as a fragmented decentralized narrative, often ending abruptly without conclusion. The drawing style is also presented as a language, employed in such a way as to have the most direct communicative power. A variety of characters including semi-naked women, baseball players, surfers and comic-book figures are placed in a world of dark satire and metaphysical musings about art, as in Untitled (1991; Los Angeles, CA, Mus. Contemp. A.). In this work a baseball player is accompanied by a text reading 'which is not skill merely, but skill in the service of beauty'. Applying literary traditions to a vernacular image system, Pettibon sought to redefine attitudes toward values in art and culture. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2008-02-06)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
women (female humans)
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women (female humans)
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false
Work Subject:
text (document genre)
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text (document genre)
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Work Worktype:
drawings
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drawings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
drawings
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drawings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
pen and ink on paper
Work Measurements (display):
13 in (H) x 9 in (W)
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Fineberg, 2000 (unconfirmed)
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Fineberg, 2000 (unconfirmed)
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Raymond Pettibon
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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