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• Title: Lucky Kunst
• Author : Peter Suchin
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 40 KB

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Gregor Muir, Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, Aurum Press, 2009, 250PP, pb 14-99 [pounds sterling], 978 1 8451339 0 0. What exactly Gregor Muir hoped to achieve by writing this thoroughly pernicious chronicle of the rise and demise of young British art is hard to ascertain. While on one level Lucky Kunst is a highly Personal account of Muir's close affiliation with the artists, dealers and collectors we now regard as constituting the yBas, on another it PurPorts to be an impersonal history. The narrative--it's practically a fairy story--is set in London in the 1980s and 90s. The yBas were, Muir explains, 'the bad boys and girls of British art. Swaggering provocateurs ... flaunting their talent in front of high-powered collectors ... relentlessly promoting themselves'. But these two awkwardly intertwined approaches remain, in the end, irreconcilable. Is this a subjective account of what Muir terms, in his somewhat conformist prose, 'the scene' and 'fresh talent', or is it intended to be a substantial critical examination? Was the moment of the yBa an attack on dowdy conventions or, conversely, a highly cynical, self-promoting enterprise right from the start? Muir fails to consider these important questions, frittering away much of the book in pointless detail and inane--if often unintentionally amusing judgemental generalisations.

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