GILBERT & GEORGE (b.1943 & 42) Hand Signed in pen, The Art of Gilbert and George, 1st Edition, 1989

GILBERT & GEORGE (b.1943 & 42) Hand Signed in pen, The Art of Gilbert and George, 1st Edition, 1989

Description – Hand signed, first Edition, cover and images in vibrant colour, 523 pages, 406 illustrations with 291 in colour, Biography, Bibliography and Epilogue.

Wolf Jahn, Gilbert & George unofficial, official biographer collates the self-professed living sculptures, Gilbert and George. Their thoughts ideas on the impasse of modernism with its crisis of values and symbolic process of decline.

From their ‘Singing living Sculpture’ in Berlin to their philosophy of the ‘Aesthetic of Existence’.

The perfect compendium or display objet d’art, for any fan of the art duo

Artist : Gilbert & George

Title : The Art of Gilbert and George

Published : Thames and Hudson

Author : Wolf Jahn

Dimension : H 26 x W 21 x B 5 cm

Medium : Hard back with dust cover and thread binding

Signed : Signed in biro in ink, The duos signature is on the blank frontice piece.

Framed : No

Original : 1st Edition

Condition : Pages a minimal yellow sunblush to tops, print and pictures In near perfect condition, vibrant colour, binding excellent

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About the Artists and the ART

Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943 in San Martin de Tor, Italy), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth), are two artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George.

They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.

The artists celebrated their 50th anniversary in April 2023, Gilbert & George opened the Gilbert & George Centre in Heneage Street, London E1 to showcase their work in regular exhibitions and to secure their legacy.

The pair are perhaps best known for their large scale photo works, known as The Pictures.

The early work in this style is in black and white, later with hand-painted red and yellow touches.

They proceeded to use a range of bolder colours, sometimes backlit, and overlaid with black grids.

Their work has addressed a wide variety of subject matter including religion and patriotism. The two artists also often appear in their own "pictures". They have described their "pictures" as a sort of "visual love letter from us to the viewer".

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