GILBERT & GEORGE / “Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York”. Gilbert & George the sculptors Spring 1972
GILBERT & GEORGE [Gilbert Prousch, San Martino in Badia, Bolzano 1943 - George Passmore, Plymouth, Devon 1942]
Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 1972, 20,8x29,3 cm., paperback, pp. [84], artist's book with typographic cover, illustrated with a sequence of 35 black and white photographic images of Gilbert & George taken while they descend a long stone staircase, each page contains a photo and is accompanied by a caption in which the phrase is written “No UP, no DOWN. Scrolling quickly through the pages, the images of the two artists seem to move inside the book like in a "flip book". The title of the book takes inspiration from the traditional English nursery rhyme "Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York". Texts by Christophe Amman and Barbara M. Reise. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2004: pag. 120; Moeglin - Delcroix 2011: pag. 429; Missmahl 2005: pag. 89].
GILBERT & GEORGE [Gilbert Prousch, San Martino in Badia, Bolzano 1943 - George Passmore, Plymouth, Devon 1942]
Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 1972, 20,8x29,3 cm., paperback, pp. [84], artist's book with typographic cover, illustrated with a sequence of 35 black and white photographic images of Gilbert & George taken while they descend a long stone staircase, each page contains a photo and is accompanied by a caption in which the phrase is written “No UP, no DOWN. Scrolling quickly through the pages, the images of the two artists seem to move inside the book like in a "flip book". The title of the book takes inspiration from the traditional English nursery rhyme "Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York". Texts by Christophe Amman and Barbara M. Reise. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2004: pag. 120; Moeglin - Delcroix 2011: pag. 429; Missmahl 2005: pag. 89].
GILBERT & GEORGE [Gilbert Prousch, San Martino in Badia, Bolzano 1943 - George Passmore, Plymouth, Devon 1942]
Luzern, Kunstmuseum, 1972, 20,8x29,3 cm., paperback, pp. [84], artist's book with typographic cover, illustrated with a sequence of 35 black and white photographic images of Gilbert & George taken while they descend a long stone staircase, each page contains a photo and is accompanied by a caption in which the phrase is written “No UP, no DOWN. Scrolling quickly through the pages, the images of the two artists seem to move inside the book like in a "flip book". The title of the book takes inspiration from the traditional English nursery rhyme "Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York". Texts by Christophe Amman and Barbara M. Reise. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2004: pag. 120; Moeglin - Delcroix 2011: pag. 429; Missmahl 2005: pag. 89].
