High Art Lite by Julian Stallabrass


ISBN
9781859847213
Published
Released
01 / 05 / 2000
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224

The recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art's 'Sensation!' show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah Lucas, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Rachel Whitread and Tracey Emin.

British art has reinvented itself and successfully courted wider attention that it has ever received before. On the face of it, much of their art has looked like simple bad behaviour - using chopped-up animals, pornography and sexually explicit mannequins as its material, or building up the features of a child murderer using tiny hand-prints. Yet their art has been both accessible and sophisticated, appealing to the mass media and to the elite world alike.

But has it done so at the price of dumbing art down, reducing it to the level of any other consumer enterprise, and losing what is distinctive about art? Other than as publicity-fodder, how seriously does it take the new audience that it has so effectively courted? In this accessible book, Julian Stallabrass has written a sustained analysis of the British art scene, exploring the reasons for its popularity, the altered structure of the art world, and examining in detail the work of the leading figures. He also explores the reasons for art criticism's so far limited purchase on this art.

Previous books about this subject have been either collections of essays or fan books, which try to aid acolytes hoping to navigate the art world. 'High Art Lite' is the first sustained analysis of British art in the 1990s, and Stallabrass shows that, whatever we might think of the art itself, it raises fascinating questions about the relation of art to mass culture, the role of art in a consumer society, the character of a national art, and the end of postmodernism.
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