"Bean-Spill" E.P.
Raymond Pettibon
American, born 1957
Minutemen
USA, est. 1980
1982
A 7-inch vinyl record whose bright center label bears Raymond Pettibon’s purposely crude, confrontational drawing and handwritten caption, using a punk DIY visual language to provoke about commerce and desire.
The yellow label hits you first, its magenta pen lines rendering a blunt, suggestive sketch of a nude posterior and erect phallus above the scrawled words “(WE NEED THE MONEY),” so that the image’s raw immediacy and dark humor overwhelm the notion of the disc as a musical object.
Created during the early 1980s, the piece shows how Pettibon moved fanzine and punk graphics into the realm of contemporary art by turning an everyday record into a vehicle for anti‑establishment critique and commentary on commodification.
Medium
7-inch vinyl record
Dimensions
overall: 7 1/16 x 7 3/16 x 1/16" (17.9 x 18.2 x 0.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired from The Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection through the The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Accession
1089.2014.14.x1-x2
Palette
Exhibitions
