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Raymond Pettibon's (b. 1957) influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of pop and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media as well as classic texts by writers such as William Blake, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Walt Whitman. Max Dax is an author, curator, and music producer. He was editor in chief of Spex and Electronic Beats and runs the Santa Lucia Gallery of Conversations in Berlin with Luci Lux. Robert Eikmeyer is a publisher, author, and art scholar who has directed the label Brigade Commerz since 2008. Kim Gordon is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Astrid Ihle is a curator at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Ulrich Loock is a Berlin-based curator and art critic. He was the director of Kunsthalle Bern from 1985 to 1997, the director of Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, from 1997 to 2001, and the deputy director of the Museu de Serralves, Porto, from 2003 to 2010. Stefan Thull is a fashion consultant, author, and art collector. In addition to numerous loans in Germany and abroad, he was also involved in two Pettibon exhibitions in Hamburg-Harburg and Porto. René Zechlin is the director of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

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A must-have for punk rockers, art historians, and all music and art lovers in between.

The definitive collection of Raymond Pettibon's album covers, uniting art and music in one powerful visual history. Featuring work for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, and many others, this volume traces the artist's bold influence on alternative culture from the late 1970s to today.

Throughout his decades-long career, Raymond Pettibon has remained deeply engaged with the world around him, whether through biting political satire of American geopolitics or poetic meditations on surfing and baseball. Pettibon's aesthetic and political sensibilities originated in the punk scene that thrived in Southern California, the artist's first home, in the late 1970s and 1980s-evidenced in his collaborations with bands such as the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Saccharine Trust. Among the most iconic works featured in this collection is Pettibon's four-column logo design for Black Flag. His distinctive artwork appears on albums for a wide range of legendary musicians, including Iggy Pop, Foo Fighters, and Lana Del Rey, among many others.

Nervous Breakdown spotlights the artist's enduring impact on the music industry, presenting for the first time every record, CD, and cassette cover since 1978 that features his artwork. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, this catalogue features more than two hundred works from the Stefan Thull Collection. With essays by Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, and Ulrich Loock, and a 1985 Artforum essay by Kim Gordon, the book includes a catalogue raisonné of Pettibon's album artwork, an essential resource for fans, scholars, and collectors of contemporary art and music history alike.