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High Art Lite
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The Rise and Fall of BritArt
By
Julian Stallabrass
$24.95
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback / softback, 356 pages, Revised and Exp Edition | | Other Information: | Illustrations (some col.) | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 12 October 2006 |
This eloquent, lacerating 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. Now fully updated and with a new concluding chapter, "High Art Lite" provides a sustained analysis of the so-called "young British artists", exploring the reasons for its popularity and the much-publicised work of its leading exponents: Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey and Sarah Lucas, among others. |
About the AuthorJulian Stallabrass is a writer and art critic. He lectures in art history as the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He is author of Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture (Verso) and the co-editor of Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art. Reviews"I cannot help but endorse his analysis of the high art lite tendency ... its abject willingness to be fucked up by the 1990s cult of celebrity; fucked over by the 1990s boom in consumerism; fucked sideways by its adoption of the styles and modes of popular culture; and fucked to buggery by its co-option by the new Labourite idiotology." -- Will Self, New Statesman
| Publisher: | Verso Books | | ISBN: | 1844670856 |
| EAN: | 9781844670857 | | Dimensions: | 20.07 x 15.9 x 2.18 centimeters (0.77 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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