The Art of Gilbert and George - signed - signiert

Gilbert & George; Jahn, Wolf

ISBN 10: 0500235457 / ISBN 13: 9780500235454

Published by Thames and Hudson Ltd, Pößneck, 1989

About this Item

auf Titel signiert von den britischen Künstlern Gilbert & George (*1943 & *1942) . leichte Gebrauchspuren . signed by artist Size: 4°.

Seller Inventory # 017614

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of Gilbert and George - signed - signiert
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, Pößneck
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500235457
• ISBN 13: 9780500235454
• Binding: Original-Pappband
• Edition: Englischsprachige Erstausgabe.
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Gut
• Signed: Vom Künstler signiert
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • G - signiert / signed Widmungsexemplare
  • Kunst - art - signiert - signed

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Synopsis

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 crisis 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.