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Dimensions Variable Product Details New Works for the British Council Collection £15 Artist(s) Fiona Banner, Don Brown, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Martin Creed, artists: Fiona Banner, Don Brown & Stephen Murphy, Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Angus Fairhurst, Ceal Floyer, Douglas Gordon, Graham Mat Collishaw, Martin Creed, Willie Doherty, Angus Fairhurst, Ceal Gussin, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Floyer, Douglas Gordon, Graham Gussin, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Stephen Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Chris Ofili, Simon Patterson, Vong Murphy, Chris Ofili, Simon Patterson, Phaophanit, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Vong Phaophanit, Georgina Starr, Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Catherine Yass Sam Taylor-Wood, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Catherine Yass The title of this book and the choice of George Stubbs’s painting of a zebra on its cover points to one of the underlying preoccupations of the Publisher British Council artists selected: the constantly shifting perspectives that new ISBN 9780863553769 information, new technologies and new circumstances make evident. Format softback Dimensions Variable features recent purchases for the British Council Pages 112 Collection of works by a generation of artists who have come to Illustrations over 100 colour and 9 b&w prominence in the last decade. The works, each illustrated in full colour, illustrations represent a variety of approaches, concerns and means of realisation. Dimensions 295mm x 230mm Weight 700 The influence of past movements in 20th Century art – particularly Conceptualism, but also Minimalism, Performance and Pop Art – are readily discerned in much of the work. Young British artists have received a great deal of attention in the past few years and have often been perceived as a coherent national grouping. However, in presenting these works together no new school or ‘ism’ is being suggested. While there are shared concerns in a number of their works, these are artists who also have a great deal in common with artists of their generation in many other countries. An illustrated biographical text on each artist is included in the book.

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