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But the medium of the Internet provides a different platform to that afforded by artistic predecessors.  'The new generation of Germania', writes Max Henry in his introduction, 'can discard the chronology of their influences.  They can incorporate sound and music, self-publish their theoretical literature, display archival ephemera, curate and collaborate, and ultimately seize all available means to propagate their view.'  Such opportunities have stimulated the emergence of the most vibrant artistic language.  Film, theatre, television, collage and kitsch provide the raw influences, but at the centre of Germania lies a core of expressionist painting, embodied in the dense surfaces of André Butzer.  Out of this seeming chaos Germania leaves anarchic traces.  These are the signs of life embedded at the heart of this stark empire.  Germania is a further title in the series Jonathan Cape is publishing in conjunction with the exhibition programme of the new Saatchi Gallery in London.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49668233167121,"sku":"GOR007225117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50899928678673,"sku":"GOR011627157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0224084976.jpg?v=1750908990"},{"product_id":"100-book-the-saatchi-gallery-9780224071802","title":"100","description":"On 15 April, 2003 Charles Saatchi will open the new Saatchi Gallery in a spectacular renovated County Hall across the river from Westminster. The enterprise will be the focus for Saatchi's vision of radical, ground-breaking British art in a venue that is accessible to the widest public. 100 is the book that will mark the occasion with one hundred works that Saatchi believes made a difference to the perception of British art.   The work of twenty-seven artists has been chosen from Saatchi's collection and of course the selection includes the shark and the sheep in formaldehyde, the head made of blood and Tracey's bed. It will be a landmark publication for a landmark occasion. After the provocation of the famous Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997, a generation of young artists have become household names. What was once so provocative has now entered the visual vocabulary of a wider public. What was once so daring is now demonstrated to be more than ephemeral. 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Whereas their predecessors advanced abstraction in the shadow of the Cold War, this new generation arose at the cusp of the transition to the digital era and is marked by the traumatic events surrounding 9\/11 and its ongoing social and political aftermath.  In these shifting times the artist’s alter ego might well be the DJ—brushstrokes are replaced by \"riffs\" while \"old school\" palettes are discarded for \"Teletubby purple\" or \"bubble gum pink\". This is the age of \"the remix\" where raw material is downloaded and \"Photoshopped\". Contemporary artists have irony at their disposal and switch to tie-dye aesthetics or psychedelia as fast as they can quote Malevich.  This next wave is thrilling. Painted loops, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, are revealed to be motorcycle skid marks—bringing new meaning to Abstract Expressionism. Even though traditions are \"deconstructed\" and paintings can echo \"grunge\", historical continuity remains.  As Max Henry writes in his introduction, \"The American Dream does not exist any more. It is itself an abstraction.\"  Abstract America is being published in conjunction with the opening of one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art—the new Saatchi Gallery in London.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094035763473,"sku":"CIN0847832457G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0847832457.jpg?v=1751329895"},{"product_id":"empire-strikes-back-book-the-saatchi-gallery-9780224089494","title":"The Empire Strikes Back","description":"Indian art has gone through a boom period in parallel with the extraordinary economic rise of the subcontinent from an agrarian state to a high tech axis of the new global economy. With new money came a new gallery system. With bigger spaces came bigger art and the sheer scale of ambition led to a break into the international market, which is always keen to find a new spectacular presence in the art world. The new art has also been created against a background of communal tension and violence. The exploration of identity, a common enterprise for artists internationally, is all the more challenging in the context of India under transformation. Above all Indian artists are faced with the legacy of their history and the ghosts of the Raj.  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