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9780714844350

Gilbert & George Intimate Conversations with François Jonquet

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714844350

  • ISBN10:

    0714844357

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-04-01
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press

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Summary

For the first time Gilbert George open up and talk at length to the public. In this extraordinarily revealing book, two of the world's most controversial contemporary artists, who have dubbed themselves living sculptures', explain and defend their views and actions. These freewheeling conversations are the fruit of over ten years of friendship with the critic Fran+ois Jonquet, and are distilled from an intensive series of unprecedentedly frank interviews. Candid and uninhibited, Gilbert George provide a highly entertaining insight into their unique lifestyle, and give a robust exposition of their views on art, life, sex, money, religion and race. Equally revealing are the many illustrations of Gilbert George's provocative and controversial works of art.

Author Biography

Gilbert (born in the Dolomites, Italy, 1943) and George (born in Devon, 1942) met as art students at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design in London, in 1967. Sacrificing their own identities to art, they made themselves into 'living sculptures', and have pursued a joint career of consistent iconoclasm. Seemingly oblivious to the controversies they have generated, they enjoy both popular acclaim and critical hostility with equal aplomb.

François Jonquet is a Paris-based journalist, author and art and film critic.

Table of Contents

Foreword: It's not every day you have a cup of coffee with a pair of living sculptures 8(12)
`We're interested in the child in us'
20(30)
`We met in London last year'
50(32)
Mortification, from joy to pathos: the black shadow
82(22)
The fracture
104(32)
The Fundamental Pictures
136(10)
Shit faith
146(14)
Order, eccentricity and madness
160(24)
`Thanks to computers, we can make our pictures sitting down'
184(24)
12 Fournier Street
208(30)
Sex, money, race, religion: London
238(38)
The adventure of `Art for All'
276(34)
Normal conservative rebels
310(12)
No one is a prophet in his own country
322(26)
Thirteen Hooligan Pictures 2004: the scream
348(4)
25 Years On 352(4)
Chronology 356(3)
Index 359(1)
Acknowledgements 360

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