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DescriptionDespite their notoriety, Gilbert & George have always been reluctant to speak publicly, and have only occasionally published manifestos or given interviews. However, over the last ten years they have developed a close friendship with the Paris-based author and critic, Francois Jonquet, and have held with him a long series of interviews in which they have been willing to talk more candidly than ever before about their lives, their work, their feelings and motives, and their reaction to the many controversies they have generated. Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations is a distillation of all these conversations, and it presents a portrait of the artists which has never before been revealed to the public. These conversations comprise a riveting and monumental document: it offers a unique and unprecedented insight into the personalities and creative processes of two artists who have earned both enormous popularity and venomous critical hostility. In 13 chapters within a loosely thematic and chronological framework, Gilbert & George talk candidly and uninhibitedly. Author descriptionGilbert (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. Francois Jonquet is a Paris-based journalist, author and art and film critic. Table of contentsIntroduction by Francois Jonquet; 1. 'We are Interested in the Child within us'; 2. 'We Met in London Last Year'; 3. 'The Black Shadow'; 4. The Fracture; 5. The Fundamental Pictures (1996); 6. 'Holy Shit'; 7. Order, Eccentricity and Madness; 8. 'Thanks to Computers, we can Paint Sitting Down'; 9. 12 Fournier Street; 10. Sex, Money, Religion, Race: London; 11. Art for All; A Permanent Combat; 12. Rebellious Conservatives; 13. No Man is Prophet in his own Country; Appendix: The 'Proust' and other Questionnaires 1978, 1990, 2001; Chronology; Bibliography; Index |