George Petros
Encyclopedia
George Petros is an American
art designer, author, illustrator and editor.
In 1984, Petros (with Adam Parfrey
) created EXIT, a New York
-based journal featuring contributions from Richard Kern
, Nick Zedd
, Lydia Lunch
, Joe Coleman
, J. G. Thirlwell
(Foetus
), Genesis P-Orridge
, H. R. Giger
, Michael Andros, Boyd Rice
, Robert R. Votta, Mark David Chapman
, John Wayne Gacy
, Charles Manson
, Marilyn Manson
, Richard Ramirez
, Michael Moynihan
, James Mason
, and Sal Canzonieri - writer/artist/editor. The final issue was published in 1994.
While producing EXIT, Petros also served as an editor at Seconds, the New York-based music magazine (founded in 1986 by Steven Blush
) published until 2000.
From 2000 until 2005, Petros served as a contributing editor of Juxtapoz and the senior editor of Propaganda.
His work has appeared in Heavy Metal
, Thrasher, Paper
, Screw
, Apocalypse Culture 2, Needles Ink, Juxtapoz, Propaganda and on Devo
album covers.
United States
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art designer, author, illustrator and editor.
In 1984, Petros (with Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.-Life:...
) created EXIT, a New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
-based journal featuring contributions from Richard Kern
Richard Kern
Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time...
, Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
, Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...
, Joe Coleman
Joe Coleman
Joe Coleman may refer to:*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher...
, J. G. Thirlwell
J. G. Thirlwell
James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...
(Foetus
Foetus (band)
Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...
), Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...
, H. R. Giger
H. R. Giger
Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film Alien.-Early life:...
, Michael Andros, Boyd Rice
Boyd Rice
Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
, Robert R. Votta, Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate who murdered former Beatles member John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He committed the crime as Lennon and Yoko Ono were outside of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman aimed five shots at Lennon, hitting him four times in his back...
, John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer, rapist and clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the...
, Charles Manson
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...
, Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson may refer to:* Marilyn Manson , an American rock musician* Marilyn Manson , the American rock band led by the singer of the same name...
, Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez
Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...
, Michael Moynihan
Michael Moynihan (journalist)
Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....
, James Mason
James Mason (National Socialist)
James N. Mason is an American National Socialist.- American National Socialist :When he was 14 years old he began communicating with George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party and became a youth member until his 18th birthday when he was sworn into the renamed National Socialist White People's...
, and Sal Canzonieri - writer/artist/editor. The final issue was published in 1994.
While producing EXIT, Petros also served as an editor at Seconds, the New York-based music magazine (founded in 1986 by Steven Blush
Steven Blush
Steven Blush is an American author, publisher and promoter.His book American Hardcore: A Tribal History was released in 2001 through Feral House publishing. The film version, American Hardcore, was released September 22, 2006...
) published until 2000.
From 2000 until 2005, Petros served as a contributing editor of Juxtapoz and the senior editor of Propaganda.
His work has appeared in Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
, Thrasher, Paper
Paper (magazine)
Paper magazine is a New York City–based independent magazine covering and discovering cultural movements with a focus on fashion, design, pop-culture, nightlife, music, art and film. The magazine covers trends, new creative talent, urban American lifestyle as well as international lifestyles and...
, Screw
Screw magazine
Screw is a weekly pornographic magazine published in the United States aimed at heterosexual men. It was first published in 1968 by Al Goldstein and was printed weekly in tabloid form...
, Apocalypse Culture 2, Needles Ink, Juxtapoz, Propaganda and on Devo
Devo
Devo is an American band formed in 1973 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales . The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult...
album covers.
Works
- Exploding Hearts Exploding Stars: The Serial Art and Propagandart of George Petros by George Petros (Norman Gosney Pubns, 1992, ISBN 1-881875-00-8)
- The EXIT Collection George Petros, editor - Michael Andros, associate editor (Tacit, 1998, ISBN 0-9661340-0-1)
- American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush, edited by George Petros (Feral House, 2001, ISBN 0-922915-71-7)
- Black Sunshine: The Tampa Underground and Beyond, compiled and produced by George Petros (Cleopatra Records, 2003)
- .45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews From Seconds Magazine, edited by Steven Blush and George Petros (Creation Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84068-124-1)
- Art That Kills: A Panoramic Portrait of Aesthetic Terrorism by George Petros (Creation Books, 2006, ISBN 1-84068-143-8)
- Les Barany's Carnivora, edited by George Petros and Deanna Lehman (Scapegoat Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9795132-1-3)
External links
- http://www.georgepetros.com
- Interview with George Petros: "From Propagandart to the Art of the Interview" by Aaron Garland, March 2000.
- "How Black is Black Metal?" by Kevin CooganKevin CooganKevin Coogan is an American investigative journalist. He is the author of the biography Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International....
, first appeared in HITLIST, February/March 1999, Volume one, Number one, Berkeley CA, USA. - Excerpt from interview discussing Exit magazine, "Adam Parfrey and Feral House Productions", an interview by R. Nicholas Taylor in CyberPsychos AODCyberPsychos AODCyber-Psychos AOD is a book and magazine publishing venture based in Denver, Colorado, focusing on avant-garde and unusual art, culture, and writings...
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