Robert Overby: 336 to 1 August 1973-July 1969
JRP Ringier
2013
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From the late 1960s on, Robert Overby (1935-1993) produced a diverse body of work that was rarely exhibited in his lifetime. His polyurethane stretches and ghostly latex casts of walls and doors belong to the history of late 1960s and early 70s process art and Postminimalism. His post-Pop paintings of the 1980s, combining figure and abstraction, explore similar issues of surface, decay and skin. Overby's first solo exhibition was held posthumously in New York in 1996. Since then he has been the subject of a retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, and his work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This book is a reprint of his first publication, "336 to 1 August 1973-July 1969," which he conceived, edited and designed himself.
