Item #10018 The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989 and The Urethra Postcard Art Of Gilbert & George 2009 (Two Volumes in Case). Gilbert, George, Michael Bracewell.
The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989 and The Urethra Postcard Art Of Gilbert & George 2009 (Two Volumes in Case)
The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989 and The Urethra Postcard Art Of Gilbert & George 2009 (Two Volumes in Case)

The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George 1972-1989 and The Urethra Postcard Art Of Gilbert & George 2009 (Two Volumes in Case)

New York and London: DelMonico Prestel, 2011. New / New. Item #10018
ISBN: 9783791351162

New York and London: Prestel, 2011. First Edition. Quarto; 2 vols in publisher’s custom case 30x31x12cm. Vol I 484pp, with 441 color images; Vol II 597pp, with 565 color images.

Pictorial case, designed by Gilbert and George themselves, with built-in handles, so you can lug it around as luggage. Each volume with pictorial dustjacket. Volumes New, pristine, still in original shrinkwrap—hence the glare and flare in our photographs—with one small shrinkwrap tear at lower corner of the hefty set.

A note of explanation: The images in the “Urethra” volume are not detectably penile. They are urethral only insofar as they all show, structurally, a central single postcard housed within an outer frame made up of repeated duplications of the same postcard—so the layout is always that of a narrow something centered in a void encircled (or en-rectangled) by something else. Scholars pseudo and real describe this as a theosophical symbol for the urethra, but also for about a dozen other concepts. We suspect Gilbert and George simply knew the title would attract curious buyers into a gallery. It has worked.

Price: $50.00