28-10-2016 16:34 via theartnewspaper.com

Tracey the Tory: on the YBAs

For anyone who was around on the London art scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, reading this book is a bit like being in an uncanny time warp. Artrage! is a forensically detailed recounting of the rise to fame of the artists who were part of what Elizabeth Fullerton refers to as the BritArt Revolution. On the way, we are reacquainted not just with the leading lights of the YBAs, such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, but also with a host of names once uttered in the same breath
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