{"product_id":"louise-bourgeois-bourgeois-truth-robert-miller-gallery-1982","title":"Louise Bourgeois — Truth — Robert Pincus-Witten— New York, 1982","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover exhibition catalogue. 58 pages. 25.5 × 25.5 cm. Offset printed throughout. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1982 by Robert Miller Gallery, \u003cem\u003eBourgeois Truth\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a decisive moment in the reception of Louise Bourgeois. Issued the same year as her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, the catalogue sits at the threshold between a long period of relative marginality and the institutional prominence that would follow. Drawings, sculpture, photographs, and critical writing appear together before the later consolidation of the Bourgeois canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title is useful. \u003cem\u003eTruth\u003c\/em\u003e functions less as description than proposition. Bourgeois’ work repeatedly returned to memory, childhood, fear, desire, repair, and repetition—not as autobiography in a conventional sense but as material capable of being reworked into form. Robert Pincus-Witten’s essay places these concerns within the broader shift from post-minimal abstraction toward a more psychological and bodily language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday the catalogue operates differently. Its original task was to support an exhibition. The exhibition closed. The publication remained. What survives is a printed support from a specific New York art world: gallery, critic, artist, audience. A temporary vehicle that outlasted the event it announced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe library stamp, softened edges, and damaged spine extend that history. Not defects so much as administrative traces. Marks left by storage, handling, accessioning, circulation, and retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Sold as found. Slight spine damage, age toning, handling wear, library stamp to rear endpaper, soft corner wear. The catalogue remains structurally sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769703031122,"sku":"BOURGEOIS-ROBMILL-CAT-1982","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bourgeois_Louise._Bourgeois_Truth_by_Robert_Pincus-Witten_Author_._1982.jpg?v=1781644869","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/louise-bourgeois-bourgeois-truth-robert-miller-gallery-1982","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}