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Gilbert & George

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


  

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Gilbert & George: New Normal Pictures

THADDAEUS ROPAC
Text by Michael Bracewell.

The latest installation in Gilbert & George’s street-level explorations of modern life in London’s East End

Pbk, 12 x 9.75 in. / 52 pgs / 35 color. | 1/21/2025 | Awaiting stock
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Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition

HENI PUBLISHING
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum.

Hbk, 11.75 x 9.5 in. / 460 pgs / 200 color. | 9/25/2018 | In stock
$55.00


What Is Gilbert & George

HENI PUBLISHING
By Michael Bracewell.

A portrait of art duo Gilbert & George with insights into their artistic practice that explores the moods and feelings of a fast, volatile urban world

Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 180 pgs. / 80 images, illustrated throughout | 11/21/2017 | In stock
$15.00


Gilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting

LéVY GORVY
Introduction by Michael Bracewell. Poetry by Kostas Anagnopoulos.

Hbk, 12.25 x 11.25 in. / 104 pgs / 42 color / 5 duotone. | 2/27/2018 | In stock
$60.00


The Thoughts of Gilbert & George

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/MOMA PS1 RECORDS
Introduction by David Platzker.

Vinyl Record, 12 x 12 in. | 9/27/2016 | In stock
$50.00


Gilbert & George: Art Titles

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Inigo Philbrick.

Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 6/30/2011 | In stock
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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation Series

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 22 bw. | 3/1/2008 | In stock
$25.00


        

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Gilbert & George: Side by Side

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Hbk, 7.5 x 4.75 in. / 192 pgs / 86 color / Ed of 2,000 signed. | 9/30/2013 | Not available
$95.00


Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Michael Bracewell.

Clth, 12 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 153 color. | 1/31/2010 | Not available
$45.00


Gilbert & George: Oh The Grand Old Duke Of York

OKTAGON

Paperback, 3.25 x 4.5 in. / 35 pgs / 35 bw. | 5/2/1997 | Not available
$29.95


Gilbert & George: Lost Day

OKTAGON

Paperback, 3.25 x 4.5 in. / 35 pgs / 35 bw. | 5/2/1997 | Not available
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Gilbert & George: New Normal PicturesGilbert & George: New Normal Pictures

Published by Thaddaeus Ropac.
Text by Michael Bracewell.

Created over the past three years, this series from artist duo Gilbert & George offers a surreal, day-glo view of London in which everything is slightly off kilter, with the artists pictured catching their balance or toppling over amidst an ever-shifting post-industrial urban landscape.



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Thaddaeus Ropac

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Paperback, 12 x 9.75 in. / 52 pgs / 35 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 182   

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Gilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on SculptingGilbert & George: The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting

Late Summer 1971

Published by Lévy Gorvy.
Introduction by Michael Bracewell. Poetry by Kostas Anagnopoulos.

Since 1967, renowned artists Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have made themselves into their art, sacrificing their individual identities to devote themselves to a more democratic art practice, which they call “Art for All.” This catalog presents their formative early work, The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting (1971). Comprised of 23 monumental, multi-panel charcoal-on-paper sculptures depicting the artists wandering streets and parks in London and inscribed with philosophical slogans, The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting was first exhibited at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York in 1971. Published in conjunction with Lévy Gorvy’s exhibition of the work, this fully illustrated catalog features a newly commissioned essay by Michael Bracewell based on a recent interview with the artists, an original poem by Kostas Anagnopoulos, newspaper reviews from the Sonnabend exhibition and a facsimile of the postal sculpture A Day in the Life of George & Gilbert, the Sculptors (1971).



PUBLISHER
Lévy Gorvy

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Hardcover, 12.25 x 11.25 in. / 104 pgs / 42 color / 5 duotone.

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 127   

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Gilbert & George: The Great ExhibitionGilbert & George: The Great Exhibition

Published by HENI Publishing.
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum.

Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition celebrates 50 years of the creative force of nature that is the artistic partnership of Gilbert & George. Published in cooperation with the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France, on the occasion of their 2018 retrospective exhibition, it features five interviews with Gilbert & George by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum, one for each decade of their practice.
Heavily illustrated with examples of Gilbert & George’s artworks from their early years to their most recent series, The Great Exhibition is designed by the artists themselves, and features their trademark style and panache.



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HENI Publishing

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Hardcover, 11.75 x 9.5 in. / 460 pgs / 200 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 129   

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What Is Gilbert & GeorgeWhat Is Gilbert & George

Published by Heni Publishing.
By Michael Bracewell.

Gilbert & George met at St Martin’s School of Art in September 1967. Fifty years later, Michael Bracewell has worked with them on this beautifully designed primer, posing the question What Is Gilbert & George? Over the course of 37 short chapters, Bracewell—who has written extensively about Gilbert & George over many years—has created an accessible handbook to their work.

Accompanied by illustrations selected by the artists, the book provides candid insights into their working practice, East London, sex, Victorian art, nationalism and maleness, among many other subjects. We may never find the answer to the question What Is Gilbert & George?, but this book, marking their halfcentury partnership, brings us closer than ever before.

Gilbert was born in Italy in 1943; George was born in the UK in 1942; both live and work in London. They have had extensive solo exhibitions, including at the Whitechapel Gallery (1971–72), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995–96), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1997), Serpentine Gallery, London (2002), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2002), Tate Modern, London, Haus der Kunst, Munich (both 2007), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art (both 2008). Novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell (born 1958) first saw the art of Gilbert & George in 1977. He met the artists 20 years later, and has since written extensively about their art and interviewed them many times. His recent publications have included essays on the art of Bridget Riley and Richard Hamilton, as well as the books When Surface Was Depth and Roxy Music.



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Heni Publishing

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 89   

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The Thoughts of Gilbert & GeorgeThe Thoughts of Gilbert & George

Published by The Museum of Modern Art/MoMA PS1 Records.
Introduction by David Platzker.

This vinyl LP record, published in a limited edition of 2,000 copies, each signed and numbered by Gilbert & George, is a new and unique artwork on which the sculptors revisit their first mature work, The Singing Sculpture (1968)--their recording of Flanagan and Allen’s Depression- era song “Underneath the Arches”--as if it were an old friend they had not seen in years, reminiscing with it and bringing their liaison up to date on their most recent art, thoughts and endeavors in the fashion of a radio show or podcast. In an age of soundbites, Gilbert & George conceived The Thoughts of Gilbert & George to be savored as one would take in a picture or a radio-personality show in the predigital era. Not simply a visit to their past, it generously welcomes its listeners into their archives and studio to spend time with them and their art, deeply engaging with us from their world on the eastern edge of London and extending throughout our globe. 

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The Museum of Modern Art/MoMA PS1 Records

BOOK FORMAT
Vinyl Record, 12 x 12 in.

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 97   

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Gilbert & George: Side by SideGilbert & George: Side by Side

Published by Walther König, Köln.

The first book by Gilbert & George was published in 1971, by Gebrüder König, in a small edition. Long out of print, Side by Side is at last being republished. Described in a new preface as “a contemporary sculpture novel,” the book functions as a manifesto or declaration of Gilbert & George’s views on life and art, expressed through texts and images. The book is divided into three chapters, in sequences of spreads linking typographic elements with a single image. As with the first edition, the most striking visual feature of Side by Side is the beautiful hand-marbled cover that makes every copy a unique art object in itself. This edition is also signed and numbered by the duo; the edition size is 2,000, of which only 1,000 are commercially available.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.5 x 4.75 in. / 192 pgs / 86 color / Ed of 2,000 signed.

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Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 128   

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ISBN 9783863352684 SDNR30
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Gilbert & George: Art TitlesGilbert & George: Art Titles

1967-2010 in Alphabetical Order, Catalogue Raisonné

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Inigo Philbrick.

Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a new spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it commences with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970, "3 Living Pieces"--flanking the title with the year on the left margin and the acronym "LS" ("living sculpture") on the right--and opens out into the more poetical titles for which they are known. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is identified with an acronym indicating its format. Spanning more than 40 years of exhibitions, pictures, postcards, books and other formats, this volume constitutes an epic of accidental verse.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 102   

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Gilbert & George: Jack Freak PicturesGilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Michael Bracewell.

Gilbert & George have been creating extraordinary large-scale pictures together for more than 40 years, continually broaching such socially loaded topics as religion, sexuality and racial discrimination in their own visually arresting style. With over 150 color illustrations, this publication documents the artists' recent series Jack Freak Pictures, their largest sequence to date. The Jack Freak Pictures focus on the British national flag, the Union Jack, examining all of its connotations—from national pride and pageantry to Cool Britannia, football and even civic disobedience. Attiring themselves in medals and amulets and casting themselves against London street scenes, maps and the zinging red, white and blue of the national flag, Gilbert & George are once again not only the creators, but also the inhabitants of their own brash visual world. For this vivaciously designed monograph, novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell supplies an introduction, in which he allies Gilbert & George to a lineage of independent-minded London visionaries.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 12 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 153 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 102   

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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation SeriesHans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation Series

Vol. 9

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider the most important landmarks in their four-decade-long career together. Many of the conversations are delightfully performative.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 22 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 38   

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Gilbert & George: New Testamental PicturesGilbert & George: New Testamental Pictures

Published by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
Artwork by Gilbert & George.



PUBLISHER
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 11.25 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 1999

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Gilbert & George

Published by Charta.

This catalogue surveys the idiosyncratic performance and mixed-media artwork of the quirky art duo Gilbert & George.

PUBLISHER
Charta

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Paperback, 8.26 x 10.6 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color / 5 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 1999

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Oktagon

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Paperback, 3.25 x 4.5 in. / 35 pgs / 35 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 1997

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Gilbert & George: Lost DayGilbert & George: Lost Day

Published by Oktagon.



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Oktagon

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Paperback, 3.25 x 4.5 in. / 35 pgs / 35 bw.

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Gilbert & George

Published by Charta.

This catalogue surveys the idiosyncratic performance and mixed-media artwork of the quirky art duo Gilbert & George. Over 100 works are included, from the first large drawings dating back to the 1970s, to the black-and-white wall compositions and the most recent large-scale photographs. Completing the book are critical essays and a detailed biography.

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Charta

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Paperback, 8.6 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 97 color / 105 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 1996

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Gilbert & George: Monarchy As Democracy

Published by Anthony d'Offay.



PUBLISHER
Anthony d'Offay

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 / 76 pgs / 6 color / 50 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 1991

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