Growing up : the Young British Artists at 50 / Jeremy Cooper.

By:

Cooper, Jeremy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Munich ; London : Prestel, 2012Description: 175 s. : ill. delvis i farverISBN:

3791347020
9783791347028

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.04 SAC

Summary: Profiled for the first time as an intimate group, this title provides a personal account of the meteoric success of the yBas and of the often painful realities of the contemporary art world. Amy Gallaccio...Damien Hirst...Gary Hume...Michael Landy...Sarah Lucas.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100579201

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Arguably the most ambitious artists of their generation, the yBas came to prominence in the early 1990s when, acting as their own curators, they staged dramatic exhibitions in various neglected spaces throughout Britain. The following decades saw periods of enormous success and at times bitter failure. Now five of the most prominent members of the group--Anya Gallaccio, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, and Sarah Lucas - are profiled in this collective portrait. Based on personal interviews by Jeremy Cooper and on his years of close observation of the London art world, this book includes his insightful commentary as well previously unpublished photographs and letters. The result is a fascinating combination of biography and art history that both traces the yBas' collective legacy and contemplates their individual futures.

Profiled for the first time as an intimate group, this title provides a personal account of the meteoric success of the yBas and of the often painful realities of the contemporary art world. Amy Gallaccio...Damien Hirst...Gary Hume...Michael Landy...Sarah Lucas.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeremy Cooper, an expert on the first 24 Antiques Roadshows, became a friend of many of these young artists as a resident of Hoxton since the mid 1980s. He is the author of No FuN without U: The Art of Factual Nonsense, as well as several works of fiction. He lives in London and West Somerset.