{"id":13866,"date":"2021-01-13T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:26:05","slug":"featured-gilbert-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-gilbert-george\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: GILBERT & GEORGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilbert & George work together as a collaborative duo, and are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly colored graphic-style photo-based artworks. <\/span>They began working together in 1967 when they met at St Martins School of Art, and from the beginning, in their films and \u2018living sculpture\u2019 they appeared as figures in their own work. The artists believe that everything is potential subject matter for their work, and they have always addressed social issues, taboos and artistic conventions. Gilbert & George have confronted many of the fundamental issues of existence: sex, religion, corruption, violence, hope, fear, racial tension, patriotism, addiction and death.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> DARK SHADOW: GEORGE & GILBERT THE SCULPTORS. Signed and Numbered by the Artists. <\/span>London: Art For All & Nigel Greenwood Inc., 1976. First Edition\u00a0 8vo. Gilt Embossed red & black Linen Over Boards. Fine \/ No Jacket – As Issued. 288pp, 128 b&w illustrations.\u00a0 #233 in a limited edition of 2000 hand signed and numbered copies. This beautifully bound 1976 artists’ book is by British conceptual duo sculpture Gilbert & George. It contains eight chapters entitled “Gordon’s Gin”, “Dark Shadow”, “Broken Hearts”, Bloody Life”, “Balls Bar”, “Bad Thoughts”, “Inca Pisco”, and “Human Bondage” – each of which consists of sixteen pages of text alternating with sixteen photographically based images. A bright and clean copy of this rare and sought after title. (cited on page 153 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s “The Photobook: A History Volume II)\u00a0 SIGNED AND NUMBERED (233\/2000) by Gilbert & George in red, as issued.<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #30932<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dark Shadow: George & Gilbert The Sculptors<\/strong>
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Publisher:<\/strong> Art For All & Nigel Greenwood Inc.
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1976, London
\nBinding:<\/strong> Hard bound, no dust jacket as issued
\nBook Condition: <\/strong>Fine
\nSigned:<\/strong> Hand signed in red pen by Gilbert & George
\nEdition:<\/strong> Limited Edition<\/p>\n

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Gilbert & George work together as a collaborative duo, and are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly colored graphic-style photo-based artworks. They began working together in 1967 when they met at St Martins School of Art, and from the beginning, in their films and \u2018living sculpture\u2019 they appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}