Robert Gober, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 333 pages. Published in 2017. Retrospective collection of essays on art. One of the most important, and most beautifully-written, books on its subject of our time. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only by a small independent press. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Flood's "Notes From The Playground". Brilliant, insightful, and written accessibly in crisp and elegant prose - which is absent in practically ALL other art books being written in our time by academics, who deign to write only for each other. "His written work from over the past forty years reveals an original and rigorous connection to the world of ideas, beauty, and the critical and aesthetic experience of our present times. Drawing from his broad knowledge of history, cinema, literature, poetry, design, and architecture, Flood's writings combine the autobiographical with the theoretical, presenting an intimate understanding of renowned contemporary artists. Throughout many of the essays, Flood draws on personal correspondence between himself and the artist, including an Annotated Conversation with Paul Thek discussing his fabricated works of wax raw-meat facsimiles embedded in luxurious Plexiglas cases; Four Interviews with Robert Gober during the 1990's, offering vivid accounts of his creative process; and a detailed description of a portrait sitting at Michael Landy's studio. Flood's significant essay on Arte Povera, co-authored with Frances Morris, is also reproduced, providing evidence of his ability to write in multiple ways" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Flood collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Richard Flood. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant art critics of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1909932396. Signed by Author.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 108 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; inscribed on title page in pen, dated 2009 and signed Bob ; no other internal marks. Laid in is a note on the Robert Gober s stationary/printed oversize business card with a handwritten note inscribed to the same person but signed by Becky . Foreign shipping may be extra.

Limited Edition. Folio. One of 140 copies. Volume 7 in the Whitney Artists and Writers Series; SIGNED by both Oates and Gober to colophon. Two volumes of text from Joyce Carol Oates, reproduced in facsimile manuscript by Robert Gober, who also supplies illustrated lithographic endpapers. Bound in white leather, with diary-style gilt clasps, enclosed in publisher's lavender silk box; it was Gober's idea to place the two volumes side-by-side, referencing the identical twins in Oates' short story. Minor chipping to gold clasps, else fine. Signed.

First Edition. HEAT, Whitney Musem, 1989, first edition, 2 volumes complete, very fine in like cloth tray case. Bound in full leather and produced as clasp-locked hand-written diaries with illustrations by Robert Gober. Limited to 140 copies and SIGNED by both author and artist. A Fine Press item to be sure.

Robert Gober image of a photo of the Hope Hill Rd street sign and a drawing of a dug grave below is printed on the inside of a folding cardboard box; 20 x 20 inches; the work comes with a printed description on Esopus letterhead and the outside of the cardboard box has the subscriber's mailing label pasted on; very good condition; this is the regular unsigned and unnumbered edition, NOT the special signed and numbered edition. Foreign shipping may be extra.