Tripping Corpse 11
Raymond Pettibon
American, born 1957
1988
An artist's book of lithographic prints in which Raymond Pettibon combines raw, comic-like drawing and handwritten captions to stage unsettling, ironic tableaux that probe American myths and private despair.
A stark black-and-white lithograph meets you: a long-haired, almost naked man in a cloak holds a dripping heart aloft while a speech bubble — “I love you, Mom, I know it’s too late to say I’m sorry…” — collapses tenderness into a grotesque ritual against a spare, wintry landscape.
Emerging from the punk-zine world, Pettibon’s illustrated books translated underground graphic language into the museum sphere, showing how terse text-image pairings can critique national narratives and expand narrative possibilities in contemporary art.
Medium
Artist's book, lithograph printed
Dimensions
page (each): 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" (21.6 x 14 cm); overall (closed): 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1/16" (21.6 x 14 x 0.2 cm)
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Credit
Acquired from The Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection through the The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Accession
1089.2014.128
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