Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection

[YBAs]

The exhibition catalogue for Sensation, arguably the defining contemporary art exhibition of the 1990s. It was the first definitive survey of work by the YBAs, or Young British Artists and consisted of forty-two works from the collection of Charles Saatchi. Controversy and ourtrage whirled around many of the works inlcuding Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and Tracey Emin's Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963-1995. Photographs of the artworks are accompanied by portraits of the artists by Johnnie Shand Kydd. The desirable, scarcer hardback edition.



With essays by Brooks Adams, Lisa Jardine, Martin Maloney, Norman Rosenthal & Richard Stone. Photographs of the artists by Johnnie Shand Kydd. Thames and Hudson in association with the Royal Academy of Arts. London. 1997. First edition. Hardback, quarto; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 222 pages. With 179 illustrations, 104 in colour. English. 300 x 240mm. 1.55kg. 9780500237526. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket; slight shelf wear to jacket, publisher's price-sticker to rear panel.