The World of Gilbert & George, released in 1981, is the only feature-length film made by the pair and was the culmination of the film and video works they had produced during the previous decade. Wide in its range of imagery, moods and themes, it functions as a statement of their beliefs, as a summation of their work to that date and as a kind of blueprint for much of the art they were to make over the next twenty years. The World of Gilbert & George: The Storyboard publishes for the first time the complete text of the film, including all instructions, as well as the 900 or so drawings visualising every scene and every shot in the film. This extraordinary publication takes the reader on a picaresque voyage through the artists' world, above all their immediate environment in London's East End, as seen through their eyes and as constructed in their imagination. It is a world of extremes, taking in the beauty of nature and the urban landscape, sex and eroticism, religion and spirituality, drunkenness and degradation, fear and human aggression, raucous humour and poetry. The drawings are reproduced as a continuous frieze along the top half of the pages of this large format book, with the relevant text - be it voice-overs, dialogue, directions or simple descriptions - printed immediately below.
The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to reconstruct its spectacular buildings and monuments. This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE–476 CE), from the Temple of Julius Caesar to the monuments on the slope of the Capitoline hill. Bringing together state-of-the-art technology in architectural illustration and the expertise of a prominent Roman archaeologist, this book offers a unique reconstruction of the Forum, providing architectural history, a summary of each building's excavation and research, scaled digital plans, elevations, and reconstructed aerial images that not only shed light on the Forum's history but vividly bring it to life. With this book, scholars, students, architects and artists will be able to visualize for the first time since antiquity the character, design and appearance of the famous heart of ancient Rome.
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