Otto Dix Raymond Pettibon Traue deinen Augen Kerber Verlag 2001 Art Catalogue

Description

Published in conjunction with the landmark exhibition at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Traue deinen Augen (“Trust Your Eyes”) places two artists nearly a century apart into an unexpectedly compelling dialogue. Otto Dix’s brutal, unsparing visions of war and Weimar Germany are paired with Raymond Pettibon’s psychologically charged drawings, revealing striking parallels in violence, satire, politics, and the darker corners of the human imagination.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue reproduces numerous works by both artists alongside installation photographs and scholarly essays in German and English. More than a traditional exhibition catalogue, it offers an intelligent comparison between one of Germany’s great twentieth-century painters and one of America’s most influential contemporary draftsmen.

Even in the second printing, this is an increasingly elusive exhibition catalogue that belongs in collections devoted to Raymond Pettibon, Otto Dix, contemporary art, underground comics, and postwar German art.