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 ...
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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.
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Exhibition catalogue. First edition, 2009. 176 pages. Illustrated in 153 colour plates. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. The artists Gilbert & George (*1943/1942) have been creating their extraordinary, trademark, large-scale pictures for more than forty years. In their deeply serious, visually powerful, yet to some provocative way, the artists explore themes such as religion, sexuality, and discrimination. With 153 color illustrations, this publication presents the artists new, comprehensive group of works entitled Jack Freak Pictures. The series focuses on the British national symbol, the Union Jack, and all of its different connotations from its being a metaphor for national pride to being a cult symbol of British pop culture. Surrounded by medals and amulets, the streets of London, and the red, white, and blue of the national flag, as has been the case in their past works, Gilbert & George are not only the creators, but also the inhabitants of their own visual world. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 35 years experience, you may order with confidence.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Used-Very Good. 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.
