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Unlike many contemporary artists whose work is based on theories of popular culture, Pierre et Gilles' artistic achievement is deliberately fused with popular culture in the present tense. Beginning with their early celebrity portraits of the late 1970s (Iggy Pop, Yves Saint-Laurent), Pierre et Gilles have created a visual world in which artifice and reality are inseparable. Employing props, make-up, costumes, and lighting that emphasize the staged quality of their photographic sets, Pierre et Gilles pursue an ideal beauty in their extravagant, hand-painted photographs that systematically demolishes any distinction between kitsch and expressions of the sublime. Both the artists and their subjects seem to insist on the complete believability of their allegorical characters, at the same time as they revel in the evidence that everything in their photographs is an illusion.
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Pierre et Gilles' roots in commercial illustration for magazine and record album covers have resulted in an extraordinarily powerful combination of celebrity culture and archetypal Christian and mythological iconography. The very perfection of the beautiful boys and glamorous, weeping women who populate their artifical paradise hints at the tragedy of doomed youth and fleeting innocence that becomes increasingly explicit in their later, darker work. Eros and Thanatos are Pierre et Gilles' abiding themes, present from the start in their images of martyred saints, and coming increasingly to the fore in the sinister shadows and almost occult iconography of their latest pieces.
This exquisitely produced book provides a new and insightful assessment of this unique, idyllic marriage of photography and painting by a leading contemporary art critic, examining the emergence of a gay aesthetic and a utopian popular culture in the first substantial overview of Pierre et Gilles' career to include their latest, hitherto unpublished work.
Dan Cameron is Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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- PublisherTreville Co., Ltd.
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 4845708884
- ISBN 13 9784845708888
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages82
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Book Description Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. np, 67 color illustrations. Text in English. From the iridescent silver covers to the glossy pink endpapers, this lushly produced little monograph on everyone's favorite Gallic collaborative photographic duo is as over the top as their campy, glamorous photographs. See Catherine Deneuve, Marc Almond, Thierry Mugler, Jeff Stryker, Julie Delpy, Rossi De Palma, Nina Hagen, and even Saints Pierre et Gilles themselves as idealized, ethereal creatures not quite of this world. A most handsome example of the 1994 first edition issued only in Japan showing a minute amount of surface scuffing to its shiny boards. Photography Monograph. Seller Inventory # 023945
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