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Young British Artists (Group of artists)

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003010523
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2003010523#concept

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YBAs (Group of artists)
YBA (Group of artists)
BritArt (Group of artists)

Related Terms

Art, British--20th century

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Young British Artists Label from public data source Wikidata
Young British Artists (Group of artists)

Sources

found: Work cat.: 100: the work that changed British art, 2003:jkt. (Young British Artists) p. 201 (YBAs)

found: Dict. of art, 1996(BritArt; group of Brit. artists active in London 1980s-late 1990s; early core members attended Goldsmith's Coll., London; term derived from series of Saatchi Gallery exhibs. of same name, 1992-6)

found: Concise Oxford dict. art terms, 2001(under YBA: leading members incl. Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Tracy Emin)

found: Dict. twentieth-cent. art, 1998(applied to highly publicized Brit. avant-garde artists supported chiefly by Charles Saatchi; sometimes referred to as "Freeze" generation)

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Change Notes

2003-09-25: new

2003-11-06: revised

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