Young British Artists (YBA)

Exhibition catalogues, monographs, artists' books, and printed matter connected to the Young British Artists — the generation of British artists who emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s through Goldsmiths, Freeze, and the institutional and commercial structures that followed.

Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Chris Ofili, Gillian Wearing, and their adjacencies appear here through the publications that documented, promoted, and debated their work: gallery catalogues, survey texts, critical responses, and ephemera from the exhibitions that defined a moment in British art.

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  • Tracey Emin, FLUX Magazine promotional postcard recto, c. 1999. Black-and-white close-up portrait photograph of Tracey Emin: direct gaze, dark eyes, short dark hair pulled back, wearing a fur-collared or textured jacket, small drop earrings. Red circular FLUX logo upper left with 'FLUX' in bold red sans-serif type. Red text below: 'TRACEY EMIN / THE ALL SEEING I / PAPER RECORDINGS'. Smaller red text at foot lists additional features: 'LEFTFIELD – REAL GOODFELLAS – BLAIR WITCH – LE TONE / FASHION – FLUX SPAC Tracey Emin, FLUX Magazine promotional postcard verso, c. 1999. White card with standard postcard layout: vertical dividing line separating message area (left) from address and stamp box (right). Stamp box upper right, blank. Small text block upper left reads: 'FLUX issue 15 contains some of the most beautiful images and features that have ever graced the pages of a magazine. To guarantee yourself hours of sensual pleasure just give £2.00 to a friendly newsagent, record, gallery, or book shop counter person

    Tracey Emin — FLUX Magazine ‘The All Seeing I’ Postcard

    Tracey Emin — FLUX Magazine ‘The All Seeing I’ Postcard

  • Sarah Lucas, GOD IS DAD, The Guardian G2, 17 October 2005. Front cover: full-bleed newsprint cover with large bold headline reading 'I sometimes wonder how long I've got' and Guardian G2 masthead at top Sarah Lucas, GOD IS DAD, The Guardian G2, 17 October 2005. Interior spread, pages 14–15: two colour photographs — left: Old Man River, two leather straps pinned to a brick wall; right: You do it with really hairy bums, close-up of a buttock with a small cross-shaped object pinned to it

    Sarah Lucas — GOD IS DAD, The Guardian / G2, 17 October 2005

    Sarah Lucas — GOD IS DAD, The Guardian / G2, 17 October 2005

  • Tracey Emin — I Need Art Like I Need God, Jay Jopling/London, 1998. Front cover. Turquoise ground, handwritten blue signature 'Tracey Emin' upper left. Centre: photograph of the artist nude from behind, crouching on a studio floor, facing a large gestural canvas. Published for her 1997 exhibition at South London Gallery. Tracey Emin — I Need Art Like I Need God, 1998. Interior page: reproduction of Love Poem, appliqué blanket. Purple upper field, blue lower field. Multicoloured cut-letter text: 'YOU PUT YOUR HAND ACROSS MY MOUTH STILL THE NOISE CONTINUES EVERY PART OF MY BODY IS SCREAMING IM LOST ABOUT TO BE SMASHED INTO A THOUSAND MILLION PIECES EACH PART FOR EVER BELONGING TO YOU'. Small Tracey Emin label lower right. YBA, textile art,

    Tracey Emin — I Need Art Like I Need God, Jay Jopling / London, 1998

    Tracey Emin — I Need Art Like I Need God, Jay Jopling / London, 1998