Nervous Breakdown: Raymond Pettibon Album Covers exhibition catalog
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.
Nervous Breakdown spotlights the artist’s enduring impact on the music industry, presenting for the first time every record, CD, and cassette cover since 1979 that features his artwork. Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, this catalog features more than two hundred works from the Stefan Thull Collection.
The catalog was designed by Studio Sven Michel and typeset in DGM Typeset and Sequel Sans. It’s published by David Zwirner Books (English, red cover, shown here) and Hatje Cantz (German, blue cover).
