Gilbert & George
and the Communists Waterstones Edition
James Birch
Picking up where the acclaimed Bacon in Moscow left off, Gilbert & George and the Communists sees daring art dealer James Birch take the most iconic duo in British art through the dying embers of the Soviet Union, and into a China reinventing itself post- Tiananmen Square as a global superpower.
HARDBACK PUBLISHED ON: 23/01/2025
£19.99
ISBN: 9781917283144
Praise for Bacon in Moscow
‘This really is a peculiarly evocative & authentic title… [Birch’s] anecdotes shine’ - The Observer
‘There’s a mini series itching to get out of this book… It has all the right ingredients’ - The Times
‘A 'forthright and enjoyably strung-out anecdote about the gallerist’s hidden plight… An enjoyable portrait of two insular, rather dysfunctional societies' – The Spectator
‘This is a curator's memoir more thrilling than most’ – Apollo Magazine
About the authors
James Birch has been a promoter of modern art exhibitions both in the UK and overseas for over thirty years. He opened his first gallery, James Birch Art, in 1983, which specialised particularly in showing the work of Surrealists and Young British Artists. His second gallery, Birch & Conran Fine Art, opened in 1987 in London’s Soho, and a decade later he opened the A22 Gallery, in Clerkenwell, London. James has exhibited artists including Grayson Perry, Francis Bacon, Gilbert & George, Genesis P Orridge and Austin Osman Spare and Denis Wirth-Miller in galleries all over the world.
Michael Hodges has reported extensively from Russia and the Middle East. He has written for many newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, Time Out, New Statesman and Esquire. He is the author of AK47: THE STORY OF THE PEOPLE’S GUN. He is currently editor-at-large of the Radio Times and he lives in London with his family.