Weight | 1.412 kg |
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Dimensions | 254 × 203 × 26 mm |
ISBN | 9781861543141 |
Cover | Paperback |
Publication Year | 2010 |
Publisher | Booth-Clibborn Editions |
£14.50
Newspeak: British Art Now
Over a decade after Sensation and the advent of the YBAs, a new generation of artists has arrived, whose work collectively reveals an arresting insight into the future of contemporary art in Britain. In Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty- Four, Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year. This book turns that Orwellian vision on its head, showing that the range of visual languages being exploited and invented by these artists is in fact expanding and multiplying. Through sculpture, painting, photography and installation, they explore such issues as class, consumerism and the phenomenon of instant success culture, often with a distinctly British dry wit.
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