WHAT IS GILBERT y GEORGE

In answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer to engage directly with Gilbert y George to understand why they have devoted their lives exclusively and continuously - to the vision of art they conceived within months of first meeting. What emerges piece by piece is a portrait of Gilbert y George as two men who are infinitely more intense, strange, determined and alone than their longstanding public image suggests.