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Title
The
Alcoholic
.
Creator
Gilbert and George (English sculptors, working together from 1967)
Date
1977
Cultural Context
English
British
European
Theme
Photographs
Composite photographs
Manipulated photographs
Photomontages
Montages (visual works)
Panels (ornament areas)
Social issues
Addiction
Alcoholism
Ethics (concept)
Ethics (philosophy)
Social ethics
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Profiles (figures)
Men (male humans)
Addicts
Alcoholics
Artists
Performance artists
Sculptors
Photographers
Heads (representations)
Heads (animal or human components)
Faces (animal or human components)
Eyeglasses
Spectacles
Subject
Photographs
Composite photographs
Montages
Justice
Social justice
Social values
Economic & social conditions
Moral & ethical aspects
Ethics
Alcoholism
Men
Sleeping
Artists
Sculptors
Photographers
Heads (Anatomy)
Faces
Eyeglasses
Baldness
Description
"
Gilbert
and
George's
presence
in their
photo-works
can
be
seen
as an
extension
of their
early
performance
activities
. They
often
stand
apart
from the
other
imagery
in the
pieces
as
though
acknowledging
the
artifice
involved
.
Moral
conundrums
are
frequently
raised
. The
Alcoholic
seems
essentially
compassionate
but in
one
notorious
work
,
'Paki'
of
1978
, they
flanked
a
young
Asian
man
. Their
images
were
flooded
in
red
whilst
he
remained
in
black
and
white
.
Whether
they were
guardians
or
oppressors
seemed
unclear.
"
(Caption
,
p.193)
; "
[…]
Gilbert
and
George
,
whose
symbiotic
partnership
began
in
1967
at
London's
St
Martin's
School
of
Art
,
showed
a
dandyish
irresolution
towards
social
protest
. Their
famous
Singing
Sculpture
(1969)
was
riven
with
contradictions
.
Wearing
anachronistic
suits
, they
posed
as
'Living
Sculptures'
with a
table
as their
'pedestal'
. Their
gold-painted
faces
echoed
Joseph
Beuys's
earlier
performance
persona
, but they had
nothing
of his
shamanic
idealism
. As they
circled
robotically
to the
music-hall
nostalgia
of a
recording
of
Flanagan
and
Allen's
Underneath
the
Arches
, they
appeared
to
annex
the
dreamy
resignation
of its
tramps
to the
futility
of the
characters
in
Samuel
Beckett's
influential
play
Waiting
for
Godot
. In the
mid-1970s
, they
began
the
sequence
of
large
,
multi-paneled
photo-installations
which
continue
to the
present
.
Appearing
in their
works
as
besuited
witnesses
of
social
deprivation
and
intolerance
, they
seemed
like
donors
in
secular
altarpieces
or
Victorian
philanthropists
visiting
hell.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.193-194)
People Pictured
Gilbert & George
Gilbert, 1943-
George, 1942-
Material
Photographs
Technique
Photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques
Inscription
Lower right panel: THE ALCOHOLIC
Work Type
Photographs
Composite photographs
Montages
Photomontages
Manipulated photographs
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.193, fig.100)
Rights
Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artists.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-07.jpg
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