Doppelgangers and the Third Force: The Artistic Collaborations of Gilbert & George and Marina Abramovic/Ulay.
From: Art Journal
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Date: 6/22/2000
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Author: Green, Charles
Missing in Action
Gilbert & George's and Marina Abramovic/Ulay's actions of the 1970s were collaborations that blurred and doubled the "normal" figure of the artist as an individual body. This type of collaboration had the properties of a third identity, but did the new identity resemble a third hand, a doppelganger (an apparition associated with death, sometimes experienced historically as a shadow or as the double of a living person), or a phantom extension of the artists' ...
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