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High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art (Revised and Expanded edition)

By Julian Stallabrass

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2006
ISBN
1844670856, 9781844670857
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
112 MB (117334038 bytes)
Edition
illustrated
Pages
368\346
Time added
2021-07-22 09:31:08

Description

This searing book has become the authoritative account of the new British art of the 1990s, its legacy in the 21st century, and what it tells us about the fate of high art as a whole in contemporary society. High Art Lite provides a sustained analysis of the phenomenal success of YBAs, young British artists obsessed with commerce, mass media and the cult of personality - Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey and Sarah Lucas, among others. In this fully revised and expanded edition, Julian Stallabrass explores how YBA lost its critical immunity in the new millennium, and looks at the ways in which figures such as Hirst, Emin, Wearing and Landy have altered their work in recent years.

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