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High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s

High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s

by JulianStallabrass (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $4.54
Synopsis

Takes a cool and critical look at British art of the 1990s. British art has reinvented itself and successfully courted a wider popularity than ever before - but has it done so at the price of dumbing down? Stallabrass provides a sustained analysis of the British art scene, examing in detail the work of its leading figures.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 18 May 2001
ISBN 10: 1859843182
ISBN 13: 9781859843185

Media Reviews
Julian Stallabrass, in his Verrine blast against Britart, combines the early Berger's fierce critique of consumerist contamination with the later Berger's sense of art's high purpose. --Marina Warner, London Review of Books I cannot help but endorse his analysis of the high art lite tendency ... its abject willingness to be f**ked up by the cult of celebrity; f**ked over by the 1990s boom in consumerism; f**ked sideways by its adoption of the styles and modes of popular culture; and f**ked to buggery by its co-option by a new Labourite idiotology. --Will Self A lacerating analysis of the reactionary tendencies of high art lite itself. -- Financial Times This is a sharp and sensible book about something that seemed unlikely to attract such treatment--the new, rude, jokey, confrontational British Art of the 1990s. -- Evening Standard A full-throated attack on the 'new British art, ' a movement obsessed with commerce and cults of the personal, that manages to be smarter and more far-reaching than its hyped-hopped-up subject ... Nimbly written and bolstered by a constellation of critical and cultural referents: balanced, engrossing, historically framed examination of this latest avant-garde, so startling yet so oddly familiar. -- Kirkus Review He asks the questions that people would like addressed, and gives the thoughtful and provocative answers. What is the real worth of these artefacts? --Richard Gott, Independent Stallabrass has done us all a favour. He's taken on a dirty job and we are all indebted to him ... his analysis is lucid and penetrating. It's also quite funny ... something to be read voluntarily with pleasure. -- Art and Language, everything magazine
Author Bio
Julian Stallabrass is Reader in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His other books include Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, and Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce.