Side by Side
  • artists' book
  • cloth boards issued without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 19.4 x 13.1 cm.
  • 170 pp.
  • edition size 600
  • signed and numbered

Side by Side

[First Edition]

Gilbert & George

Side by Side

description

One of the most important artists' books of the era. Each copy with unique marbleized cloth-covered boards individually produced by Gilbert & George. Contains three short stories by the artist–who recognize themselves as two individuals yet one artist—Chapter One, "With Us in the Nature"; Chapter Two, "A Glimpse into the Abstract World"; and Chapter Three, "The Reality in Our Lives." Each story illustrated with black-and-white images of Gilbert & George in situ.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 95.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 283.

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Side by Side [2012 Reprint]
Cologne / New York, Germany / NY: Konig Brothers,
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$1,750.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of corners of cloth covers with light fading of hot-stamped text on spine. 1 cm. area of bumping to top of page from endpaper to introduction page. Light yellowing of page edges and endpapers from adhesives. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Signed, George & Gilbert, and numbered 525/600.
[Object # 4410]