Présentation de l'éditeur
'Muir may have been a relentless caner, but he makes this book a pleasure from start to finish' London Lite 'Muir doesn't put a foot wrong...this lucid, lurid, indiscreet memoir of gilded gutters, "more drugs than milk", Sensation, Hirst's shark and Emin's bed, is an unrivalled record of 1990s Cool Britannia, when British art wowed the world' Jackie Wullschlagher, Financial Times 'Art history told through the bottom of a pint glass' The Herald These days artists like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman brothers are not only big business but also , quite simply, celebrities. But they rose from obscurity back in the eighties and nineties in a then-semi-derelict part of east London by visiting upon the art world a set of artworks as outlandish and attention-seeking (not to mention scatological) as their general behaviour. This is the first account of how YBA (Young British Artists) came about, by the group's only 'embedded journalist': an outrageously comic tale of White Cube openings, fights in pubs, vomiting into fountains and, eventually, the breakthrough exhibition Sensation. Throughout, Gregor Muir was there...Gregor Muir is now director of Hauser & Wirth (London), one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries.
Biographie de l'auteur
Gregor Muir is the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Previously, he has been director of Hauser & Wirth (London), the contemporary art gallery, and Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tate where he curated several exhibitions and museum displays, and was responsible for numerous acquisitions of contemporary art for Tate Collections. Muir curated YBA group shows such as `Lucky Kunst’ and `Liar’. He has been a critic and writer for various cutting-edge publications such as Dazed & Confused, Parkett and Frieze magazine.
