Between the Visible and the Legible: Raymond Pettibon’s “I” Caught in Translation

Tilo Reifenstein, PhD, is Lecturer in Critical Studies at York St John University. He is a trustee for the UK-based Association for Art History (AAH) and the organisation’s Hon. Secretary. He recently co-edited the “Between Sensuous and Making-Sense-of” special issue of the Open Arts Journal (2019). Current publications include “Ideal Identities and Impossible Translations: Drawing on Writing and Writing on Drawing” in Imaging Identity: Text, Mediality and Contemporary Visual Culture (eds. Johannes Riquet & Martin Heusser) (Palgrave, 2019), “The Graphics of Ekphrastic Writing: Raymond Pettibon’s Drawing-Writing” in Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (eds. David Kennedy & Richard Meek) (Manchester University Press, 2018) and “Drawing the Letter” in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (vol. 3, no. 2, 2018).