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Robert Gober

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Robert Gober

GLENSTONE MUSEUM
Edited by Emily Wei Rales, Anne Reeve, Ali Nemerov. Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Text by Jim Lewis.

Hbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 84 pgs / 42 color / 6 bw. | 10/23/2018 | In stock
$35.00


Robert Gober: 2000 Words

DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Johanna Burton.

Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 79 pgs / 46 color. | 2/23/2016 | In stock
$22.00


Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Introduction by Ann Temkin. Essay by Hilton Als. Chronology by Claudia Carson, Paulina Pabocha with Robert Gober. Afterword by Christian Scheidemann.

Hbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 272 pgs / 264 color. | 10/31/2014 | In stock
$45.00


    

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Robert Gober: Sculpture And Drawing

WALKER ART CENTER
Artwork by Robert Gober. Text by Gary Garrels, Ann Temkin, Richard Flood.

Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 75 color / 75 bw | 2/2/1999 | Not available
$35.00


Robert Gober

DIA ART FOUNDATION
Artwork by Robert Gober. Text by Dave Hickey.

Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 18 color / 2 bw. | 8/2/1993 | Not available
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Robert Gober: Tick TockRobert Gober: Tick Tock

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery.
Text by Helen Molesworth.

Robert Gober: Tick Tock, like the exhibition of the same name—Gober’s first since his 2014 survey at the Museum of Modern Art—is divided into three sections. In the first, a series of drawings depict tree trunks, human torsos and barred windows. The second section consists of 18 wall-mounted assemblages, including fragments and motifs from prior sculptures. In her essay, Helen Molesworth describes them as “what happens to memories when they are literally objectified—when they take up residence outside of us.”

The final section centers on a sculpture first shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale. Inspired by Gober’s childhood home and modeled after a church on Long Island, it depicts a pair of cellar doors opening onto a staircase set into the gallery floor. At the foot of the stairs, a yellow door with a handle of braided human hair seems to leak light around its edges.

Illustrated with color plates, this book is a testament to the artist’s explorations of faith and loss through metaphor.



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Matthew Marks Gallery

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Clth, 8 x 9.25 in. / 80 pgs / 55 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 163   

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Robert GoberRobert Gober

Published by Glenstone Museum.
Edited by Emily Wei Rales, Anne Reeve, Ali Nemerov. Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Text by Jim Lewis.

This book marks the long-term installation of Robert Gober’s (born 1954) seminal Untitled (1992) at Glenstone Museum. Untitled is an immersive, multi-sensorial installation with diverse constituent parts: sinks with running water, darkened exterior pathways, a brightly-lit interior chamber, a hand-painted 360-degree mural and discrete sculptural elements made to appear like prison windows, boxes of rat bait and bundles of newspaper. Robert Gober includes never-before-published archival images of the work’s original presentation at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, an oral history based on interviews with the artist and collaborators, an original essay by author Jim Lewis and extensive imagery of the piece as installed at Glenstone Museum.



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Glenstone Museum

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Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 84 pgs / 42 color / 6 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 150   

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Robert Gober: 2000 WordsRobert Gober: 2000 Words

Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Johanna Burton.

In placing us at a remove from our relationships to familiar, domestic objects and environments, the labor-intensive work of Robert Gober (born 1954) defies our understanding of accepted conventions and draws attention to the movement of meaning between materials and across personal histories. Part of the 2000 Words series, conceived and commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni and published by the Deste Foundation, 2000 Words: Robert Gober presents the entirety of the sculptor's works in the Dakis Joannou Collection and includes an essay by Johanna Burton that examines how the artist's work alloys personal histories with collective experience.

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DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 79 pgs / 46 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 142   

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Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a MetaphorRobert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Introduction by Ann Temkin. Essay by Hilton Als. Chronology by Claudia Carson, Paulina Pabocha with Robert Gober. Afterword by Christian Scheidemann.

Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Early in his career, he made deceptively simple sculptures of everyday objects--beginning with sinks and moving on to domestic furniture such as playpens, beds and doors. In the 1990s, his practice evolved from single works to theatrical room-sized environments. In all of his work, Gober's formal intelligence is never separate from a penetrating reading of the socio-political context of his time. His objects and installations are among the most psychologically charged artworks of the late twentieth century, reflecting the artist's sustained concerns with issues of social justice, freedom and tolerance. Published in conjunction with the first large-scale survey of the artist's career to take place in the United States, this publication presents his works in all media, including individual sculptures and immersive sculptural environments, as well as a distinctive selection of drawings, prints and photographs. Prepared in close collaboration with the artist, it traces the development of a remarkable body of work, highlighting themes and motifs that emerged in the early 1980s and continue to inform Gober's work today. An essay by Hilton Als is complemented by an in-depth chronology featuring a rich selection of images from the artist's archives, including never-before-published photographs of works in progress.

Robert Gober was born in 1954 in Wallingford, Connecticut. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, most notably at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Schaulager, Basel. In 2001, he represented the United States at the 49th Venice Biennale. Gober's curatorial projects have been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Menil Collection, Houston; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in New York.

Ann Temkin is an American art curator, and currently the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic who writes for The New Yorker.

Claudia Carson is archivist and registrar to Robert Gober.

Paulina Pabocha is Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.

Christian Scheidemann is the Senior Conservator and President of Contemporary Conservation Ltd.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 272 pgs / 264 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 20   

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Robert Gober

Published by The Art Institute of Chicago/The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Essays by James Rondeau and Olga M. Viso.

Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.

PUBLISHER
The Art Institute of Chicago/The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

BOOK FORMAT
Slipcased, 7.5 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / 70 duotone

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Catalog: FALL 2001

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Robert Gober: Sculpture And DrawingRobert Gober: Sculpture And Drawing

Published by Walker Art Center.
Artwork by Robert Gober. Text by Gary Garrels, Ann Temkin, Richard Flood.



PUBLISHER
Walker Art Center

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 75 color / 75 bw

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Catalog: SPRING 1999

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Robert GoberRobert Gober

Published by Dia Art Foundation.
Artwork by Robert Gober. Text by Dave Hickey.

With wit and insight, critic Hickey walks us through Gober's disturbing site-specific installation at Dia.

PUBLISHER
Dia Art Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 18 color / 2 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 1994

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