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Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art - Softcover

Muir, Gregor

 
9781845135287: Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845135288 ISBN 13: 9781845135287
Verlag: Aurum, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

These days artists like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman brothers are not only big business but also , quite simply, celebrities. But they rose from obscurity back in the eighties and nineties in a then-semi-derelict part of east London by visiting upon the art world a set of artworks as outlandish and attention-seeking (not to mention scatological) as their general behaviour. This is the first account of how YBA (Young British Artists) came about, by the group's only 'embedded journalist': an outrageously comic tale of White Cube openings, fights in pubs, vomiting into fountains and, eventually, the breakthrough exhibition Sensation. Throughout, Gregor Muir was there...

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Gregor Muir is the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Previously, he has been director of Hauser & Wirth (London), the contemporary art gallery, and Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tate where he curated several exhibitions and museum displays, and was responsible for numerous acquisitions of contemporary art for Tate Collections. Muir curated YBA group shows such as 'Lucky Kunst' and 'Liar'. He has been a critic and writer for various cutting-edge publications such as Dazed & Confused, Parkett and Frieze magazine.

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Verlag
Aurum
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845135288
ISBN 13 
9781845135287
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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