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Point Break: Raymond Pettibon, Surfers and Waves (Hardcover)
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Point Break: Raymond Pettibon, Surfers and Waves (Hardcover)
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Pettibon is known for his characteristically youthful aesthetic and
sharply satirical critique of American culture. Though drenched in
cynicism, his work empathizes with the dizzying madness of our own
humanity as it engages both so-called high and low culture. Perhaps
most poetic of the many motifs present in Pettibon's oeuvre is the
surfer. In 1985 Pettibon began Surfers--a series he continues to
work on to this day--popular for its depiction of the lone surfer
silently carving "a line of beauty," along an impossibly large
wave. This publication traces a selection of one hundred surfers
from the series, from smaller monochromatic works on paper to
colorful large-scale paintings applied directly to the wall. For
Pettibon's protagonist in these works-his countercultural
hero-surfing exists apart from all else. Momentarily he achieves
sublimity on the wave, distant yet synced with turbulent reality.
We are forced to confront our own scale: small and feeble in the
face of so much sublime power. Pettibon's lyrical writings on these
painted surfaces-both his own and taken from literature-reference
his own philosophies and the confusions of reality-he critiques the
hypocrisies and vanities of the world he engages. To help navigate,
the renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan, perfectly
distills the transcendent nature and lack thereof in Pettibon's
work.
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