ArtRage! The Story of the BritArt Revolution
Elizabeth Fullerton
Thames & Hudson, 2016
€35,00
The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed onto the British contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art, brazenly exploding art-world conventions. Alternately praised for its witty energy and dismissed as trivial gimmickry, their work had a profound impact both on the art scene and on public consciousness that continues to be felt today. Now, almost three decades on, Artrage! tells the story of the YBAs with the benefit of perspective, chronicling the group’s rise to prominence from the landmark show ‘Freeze’, curated by Damien Hirst, through the heyday of the 1990s and the ‘Sensation’ exhibition, to the Momart fire of 2004 that seemed to symbolize the group’s fading from centre stage.
Drawing on more than 50 interviews with the key BritArt players and extensive research, Elizabeth Fullerton examines the individual characters, their relationships to one another, crucial events and seminal artworks within the political, economic and artistic context of those years.
ISBN: 9780500239445
