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Takes a cool and critical look at British art of the 1990s. British art has reinvented itself and successfully courted a wider popularity than ever before - but has it done so at the price of dumbing down? Stallabrass provides a sustained analysis of the British art scene, examing in detail the work of its leading figures.
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Beyond the Hype about 'Young British Art'
This is the first serious analysis of the much-publicised work of the so-called 'young British artists'--Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey and Sarah Lucas, among others. It shows how their work became successful, how it has transformed the previously parochial British art scene, as well as highlighting the limits and problems of this art. Has this art achieved its success at the price of dumbing-down and cynical playing upon the sensitive spots of the mass media? How seriously does it take the new audience that it has so successfully courted? Is there anything British about this new art? What does this lite art tell us about the fate of high art as a whole in contemporary society? I have tried to examine these and other questions in as clear a manner as possible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This is the first serious analysis of the much-publicised work of the so-called 'young British artists'--Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey and Sarah Lucas, among others. It shows how their work became successful, how it has transformed the previously parochial British art scene, as well as highlighting the limits and problems of this art. Has this art achieved its success at the price of dumbing-down and cynical playing upon the sensitive spots of the mass media? How seriously does it take the new audience that it has so successfully courted? Is there anything British about this new art? What does this lite art tell us about the fate of high art as a whole in contemporary society? I have tried to examine these and other questions in as clear a manner as possible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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