{"title":"Books by Robert Hobbs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781838660307","title":"Jim Hodges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first in-depth survey of the life and work of Jim Hodges, one of America's most celebrated contemporary artists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Hodges is an artist who addresses issues such as memory, love, and existential struggles through a multifaceted practice that includes photography, screen printing, and sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis use of found materials like rocks and denim, coupled with the adoption of transitory shapes like spiderwebs, speaks of a personal experience that resonates on a collective level filtered through elements available in nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMysterious, beautiful, poetic, and conceptually deep, Hodges's work has the rare quality of being simultaneously thought-provoking and visually beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307448906101,"sku":"9781838660307","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781838660307_c59a16df-25cd-409c-b789-b438761d06c2.jpg?v=1786028020"},{"product_id":"9781949172737","title":"Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThemes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show later that year at the Kunstverein Hannover. Because these essays have not been distributed in the US and remain among the most in-depth and essential investigations of her work, Karma is now republishing them in this new clothbound volume.\u003cbr\u003eAmong the most celebrated artists of the past three decades, with over 93 solo exhibitions to her credit, including a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker is known for her tough, critical, provocative and highly imaginative representations of African Americans and whites reaching back to antebellum times. In his analysis, Hobbs looks at the five main sources of her art: blackface Americana, Harlequin romances, Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, Stone Mountain’s racist tourist attraction and the minstrel tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hobbs\u003c\/b\u003e (born 1946) has written more than 50 books and catalogs, focusing on such artists as Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Lee Krasner, Robert Smithson and Kehinde Wiley. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003eNow based in New York, \u003cb\u003eKara Walker\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994; soon afterward, Walker rose to prominence for her large, provocative silhouettes installed directly onto the walls of exhibition spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309591179637,"sku":"9781949172737","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781949172737_e26fe0c6-fdd6-4218-a452-61d6a2a27880.jpg?v=1786030697"},{"product_id":"9783777446646","title":"Chris Dorland","description":"Discover Chris Dorland: Future Ruins, the first monograph on the acclaimed artist, featuring a major essay by renowned art historian Robert Hobbs. Published by Hirmer in Spring 2026, this volume delves into Dorland's fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics.   Future Ruins explores the cutting-edge vision of Chris Dorland in his debut monograph, the definitive introduction to the acclaimed artist’s dystopian digital aesthetic: a fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics. With a groundbreaking text by leading art historian Robert Hobbs, this richly illustrated volume captures Dorland’s hybrid process—blending digital distortion, surveillance aesthetics, and glitch technologies into a singular, cinematic language. This is a vital document of a practice at the edge of image culture and collapse and is essential for collectors, critics, and curators of postdigital, new media, and contemporary painting.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369513628021,"sku":"9783777446646","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-robert-hobbs.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}