L’ODYSSÉE IMAGINAIRE

Paris: Contrejour, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The first monograph by the French artists and romantic partners renowned for creating a world where painting and photography meet. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture. Quarto: 78, [2] pp. with full-color artwork throughout. Original white cloth (truncated) binding, with gray-stamped titles. Very light bump to the spine heel; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 78591)