Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Young British Artists sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Young British Artists (late 1980s – 1990s), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Conceptual art; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: Stuckism.
The Young British Artists, or YBAs - also referred to as Brit artists and Britart - is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988. Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths, in the late 1980s, whereas some from the group had trained at Royal College of Art.
The scene began around a series of artist-led exhibitions held in warehouses and factories, beginning in 1988 with the Damien Hirst-led Freeze and, in 1990, East Country Yard Show and Modern Medicine. Read more ↗
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