Sex & Violence, Death & Silence by Gordon Burn

Sex & Violence, Death & Silence by Gordon Burn

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Focusing on two principle generations - the Royal College pop art of Hockney and his contemporaries, and the YBA sensations of the 1990s - it explores how these artists rose to prominence with their friends and contemporaries, and what happened next. Burn's work is fast becoming a kind of chronicle.

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Sex & Violence, Death & Silence by Gordon Burn

Focusing on two principle generations - the Royal College pop art of Hockney and his contemporaries, and the YBA sensations of the 1990s - it explores how these artists rose to prominence with their friends and contemporaries, and what happened next. Burn's work is fast becoming a kind of chronicle.
Gordon Burn is the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He is also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards.
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ISBN 13 9780571229291
ISBN 10 0571229298
Title Sex & Violence, Death & Silence
Author Gordon Burn
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2009-11-05
Number of pages 592
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.