- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (25 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845133900
- ISBN-13: 978-1845133900
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 316,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A fantastic historical document...his book describes those defining moments so well.' (Tracey Emin Independent 20100221)
‘This lucid, lurid, indiscreet memoir is an unrivalled record of 1990s Cool Britannia, when British Art ruled the world’ (Financial Times Books of the Year) (Financial Times )
‘Sharply atmospheric…a picaresque journey, a fly-in-the-vitrine’s-eye view of the period’ (Hermione Eyre New Statesman )
‘All the stars of the YBA movement appear in this former journalists memoir, swearing and yelling as they go’ – (Matthew Collings Observer Review )
'An absorbing and intelligent account of the times, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary art or the 1990s Brit Scene' (The Bookseller )
‘This lucid, lurid, indiscreet memoir is an unrivalled record of 1990s Cool Britannia, when British Art ruled the world’ (Financial Times Books of the Year) (Financial Times )
‘Sharply atmospheric…a picaresque journey, a fly-in-the-vitrine’s-eye view of the period’ (Hermione Eyre New Statesman )
‘All the stars of the YBA movement appear in this former journalists memoir, swearing and yelling as they go’ – (Matthew Collings Observer Review )
'An absorbing and intelligent account of the times, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary art or the 1990s Brit Scene' (The Bookseller )
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'an entertaining read, with Muir a genial and upbeat guide'
'Muir's irreverent and often very funny account of (the YBA's) meteoric rise to fame is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary art and culture'
'Muir's irreverent and often very funny account of (the YBA's) meteoric rise to fame is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary art and culture'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Interesting occasionally, but written in terrible journalese and completely cliche-ridden. Would have been so much better if he'd gone to a few writing classes before he embarked on the book.
Nice cover, though.
Nice cover, though.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To anyone with a passing knowledge of the YBAs this book offers precious little beyond what is already known. Vignettes such as YBAs penchant for getting plastered with celeb mates in exclusive drinking holes are widely known stories as is their rise from squat-like studios on the urban periphery to controversial super-stardom by the end of the decade.
Where Muir's insights come they seem limited to the gallery infrastructure that links artists to their patrons, but surely this isn't why people pick up the book.
Of course to provide lurid tabloid style revelations would be a betrayal of the YBAs he was close to, though one senses Muir was an acquaintance rather than close friend to many on the scene, but nevertheless some more critical engagement with the subject of the YBAs would have been interesting. Such engagement with the ideas of the YBA movement does come in the last couple of chapters which is interesting, possibly betraying Muir's origins as an Art magazine essayist, providing by proxy some well targeted critique of the bloated excesses of YBA art however, it seems to be too little too late.
Where Muir's insights come they seem limited to the gallery infrastructure that links artists to their patrons, but surely this isn't why people pick up the book.
Of course to provide lurid tabloid style revelations would be a betrayal of the YBAs he was close to, though one senses Muir was an acquaintance rather than close friend to many on the scene, but nevertheless some more critical engagement with the subject of the YBAs would have been interesting. Such engagement with the ideas of the YBA movement does come in the last couple of chapters which is interesting, possibly betraying Muir's origins as an Art magazine essayist, providing by proxy some well targeted critique of the bloated excesses of YBA art however, it seems to be too little too late.
Format:Paperback
A very personal account of the Young Contemporary British Art scene. Reads like a novel rather than a technical account and will appeal to those looking for an entertaining read and contextual setting in which the YBA's developed. Good background for the changes in British art scene over the last twenty years.
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