Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art : Muir, Gregor: Amazon.de: Books
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Reading this book is a little like reading a really long People magazine, except without enough pictures to make it completely titillating. Not as much a tell-all as it advertises itself to be, the author mentions so many people in the YBA's orbit that it's impossible to retain all of them. And that generous inclusiveness as well as too-general descriptions of drug-use and other antics gives the impression that he's hedging his bets. Incidentally, the authors encyclopedic impulse is also reflected in the number of bars and watering holes he mentions, making it a candidate for an excellent…
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