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Gilbert and George

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Gilbert and George
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(Biographies / Gilbert and George (1942 X) a team of artists, Gilbert Proesch, Italian, born 1942, and George Passmore, British, born 1943: noted esp for their photomontages and performance works


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It has an international thrust, featuring such artists as Switzerland's Peter Fischli and David Weiss, the Netherlands' Jan Dibbets, Germany's Joseph Beuys, France's Yves Klein and England's Gilbert and George.
To con temporary eyes they have a kind of campy, self-conscious appeal that seems to anticipate the work of a host of present-day artists, such as Pierre et Gilles, McDermott and McGough, and Gilbert and George.
If you go to him for a building, you get a work of art, which has the same kind of fashionable attraction as the productions of Gilbert and George, Julian Schnabel or Damien Hirst - such things, because they are obviously odd, establish the purchaser as culturally progressive.
 
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