Product Description

Presenting the work of young British artists from the Saatchi Collection, this volume features work by over 40 of the most radical artists working in Britain in the 1990s. Essays analyse the phenomenon of the British art scene from the late 1980s, assessing the critical reaction of the work, placing it in its historical context, and revealing the startling achievements of these young artists in Britain and the role played by imaginative and courageous patronage. The book features the work of: Darren Almond; Richard Billingham; Glenn Brown; Simon Callery; Dinos and Jake Chapman; Adam Chodzko; Mat Collishaw; Keith Coventry; Pete Davies; Tracey Emin; Paul Finnegan; Mark Francis; Alex Hartley; Marcus Harvey; Mona Hatoum; Damien Hirst; Gary Hume; Michael Landy; Abigail Lane; Langlands and Bell; Sarah Lucas; Martin Maloney; Jason Martin; Alain Miller; Ron Mueck; Chris Ofili; Jonathan Parsons; Richard Patterson; Simon Patterson; Hadrian Pigott; Marc Quinn; Fiona Rae; James Reilly; Jenny Saville; Yinka Shonibare; Jane Simpson; Sam Taylor Wood; Gavin Turk; Mark Wallinger; Gillian Wearing; Rachel Whiteread; and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99924 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 222 pages

Synopsis
Presenting the work of young British artists from the Saatchi Collection, this volume features work by over 40 of the most radical artists working in Britain in the 1990s. Essays analyse the phenomenon of the British art scene from the late 1980s, assessing the critical reaction of the work, placing it in its historical context, and revealing the startling achievements of these young artists in Britain and the role played by imaginative and courageous patronage. The book features the work of: Darren Almond; Richard Billingham; Glenn Brown; Simon Callery; Dinos and Jake Chapman; Adam Chodzko; Mat Collishaw; Keith Coventry; Pete Davies; Tracey Emin; Paul Finnegan; Mark Francis; Alex Hartley; Marcus Harvey; Mona Hatoum; Damien Hirst; Gary Hume; Michael Landy; Abigail Lane; Langlands and Bell; Sarah Lucas; Martin Maloney; Jason Martin; Alain Miller; Ron Mueck; Chris Ofili; Jonathan Parsons; Richard Patterson; Simon Patterson; Hadrian Pigott; Marc Quinn; Fiona Rae; James Reilly; Jenny Saville; Yinka Shonibare; Jane Simpson; Sam Taylor Wood; Gavin Turk; Mark Wallinger; Gillian Wearing; Rachel Whiteread; and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Customer Reviews

Unique record of UK art history
This is the definitive book of the definitive exhibition of Brit art. It contains iconic images and good texts, and is very attractively laid out with full page colour illustrations of the major works. If you are interested in contemporary British art, then this is a "must have" item.

if you dont know modern art, start here!
this is a great book as it is art from the sensation exhibition. It has work from all the leading british artists who kick started british art back in the early ninetys and gives you an all round feel for what was going on at the time, people such as tracy emin, damien hurst, sarah lucas etc.
there is a short explanation of the artist and each piece at the back, not in depth.

Fantastic
I went to the Sensations exhibition over six years ago and found it to be both shocking and exciting. The exhibition was initially aimed at shocking its viewers by doing things nobody had thought of before. As an artist myself, I found the exhibition to be really interesting and I learnt a lot from it. Beware, I would not recommend this book to the skweemish, vegetarians (it has cut up and mutilated animals) or to children as some pictures are very shocking and disturbing.
Years on I regreted not buying the book at the exhibition as I have learnt so much about so many artistic possibilities from the exhibition. I will say that this is one of the best exibitions I have been to and the book proudly shows this.