SARAH LUCAS, JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN, MAT COLLISHAW, ANGELA BULLOCH ET AL. — Corpus Delicti: London i 90'erne, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1995

Published by Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, alongside Corpus Delicti: London i 90'erne, 25 March–28 May 1995, this catalogue brought twelve London artists to a Danish audience under a title split between two languages. Corpus delicti is the Latin legal term for the evidence that a crime has taken place. London i 90'erne means London in the nineties.

The selection is broader than the shorthand later attached to the period. Sarah Lucas, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Mat Collishaw appear alongside Angela Bulloch, Angus Fairhurst, Graham Gussin, Abigail Lane, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood and Jane and Louise Wilson. This is not a single style or a single argument. It is a city's art scene, assembled for export.

The cover sets the tone before the book is opened. A young woman in a patterned dress lies backwards off a leather sofa, her head hanging toward the floor, the whole image printed in cold blue monochrome. The title is set in two voices: "corpus" in a plain lowercase sans-serif, "delicti" in blackletter. A body, and the evidence of a crime.

On the back, the artists are listed in spaced capitals. At the foot sit a monogram and the logo of the British Council, so a show at a Copenhagen art society carries the mark of Britain's cultural agency abroad. The list runs alphabetically by surname, with one exception: the Chapmans appear as Dinos, then Jake, but the Wilsons as Louise, then Jane. Twelve names, ten practices. Two collaborating pairs, each entered as two individuals.

Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1995. Texts by Torben Christensen, Andrew Renton and Helle Behrndt. Illustrated softcover.

Condition: Good. Light rubbing and surface marks to covers, with wear to edges and corners, most visible at the lower left of the rear cover.