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G I L B E R T A N D G E O R G E _______________________________________
S i g n e d B o o k
T H E A R T O F
H a r d c o v e r B o o k
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Images © Gilbert and George. All Rights Reserved
D E T A I L S
Hardcover: 512 pages
Hardback book signed, dedicated and dated on the inside page (see scans below). Dated 'July 4th 1990, London'.
With 406 illustrations, 291 in colour.
'Always be smart he dressed, well groomed, relaxed, friendly, polite and in complete
control'. The first of Gilbert and George's 'Laws of the Sculptors' gives the
simplest account of their famous and (to some people) still baffling
joint persona. Since the late 1960s, when they left art school and proclaimed
themselves 'living sculptures', their work has always been sculpture. This is so, not in
any technical sense, but in the sense that every work is a self-contained and
self-justifying object.
How did Gilbert & George come to define themselves, for a time, as objects? And
how did those early works lead them to the vast compositions based on photographic
images which they have been producing since the late 1970s? These are
striking and
disturbing works; and yet the technique forces our attention to remain on the
surface, held there by flat, glowing colours and an overlying grid.
In Gilbert & George's words: 'You will see it as a whole, as a work of art on
the wall, instead of looking for its content.'
In this, the first full-length illustrated exposition of the art of Gilbert &
George, Wolf Jahn traces its development by setting it in the widest
possible cultural context. With the help of over 400 reproductions - 291 in superb colour -
he shows how Gilbert &
George first embodied in themselves the plight of their own age -
the impasse of modernism, with its crises of values and its imitation of the lifeless
rigidity of a dehumanized environment - and then embarked on
a symbolic
process of decline, plainly documented in their works. They emerged into a
new world
of their own, based on sexual polarities and blazing with life and growth.
The art of Gilbert &
George, as described by Wolf Jahn, exists on a cosmic scale.
Wolf Jahn was born in Stuttgart in 1958, and currently works (1990) as a freelance writer in
Hamburg. In recent years he has promoted the works of Gilbert and George through numerous
lectures and catalogues.
Images © Gilbert and George. All Rights Reserved.
5 STARS OUT OF FIVE
© Paul Page
G A L L E R Y
B U Y
Price: £99.99 UK Sterling
(Shipped from UK) (Price includes UK postage & packaging only. Outside UK here)
2020: 1 in stock. Condition: good. As per scans, dust jacket has wear in places but signed copies of this book are rare.
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F R A N K A U E R B A C H S I G N E D I T E M S
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