What’s It All About?
Tom Lubbock, 6 April 1995
Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the Nineties
by Sarah Kent.
Zwemmer, 270 pp., £19.95, November 1994,0 302 00648 6 Show More
by Sarah Kent.
Zwemmer, 270 pp., £19.95, November 1994,
The Reviews that Caused the Rumpus, and Other Pieces
by Brian Sewell.
Bloomsbury, 365 pp., £12.99, November 1994,0 7475 1872 6 Show More
by Brian Sewell.
Bloomsbury, 365 pp., £12.99, November 1994,
“... is a warning against the attempt. But it also points to a lack on the other side. America has had Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Hal Foster and Craig Owens setting up positions, rationalising developments; in Britain there’s very little general pro-contemporary art theory. But then in New York the battle-lines and the historical stopping-off points ... ”
