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Young British Artists (Group of artists)

LC control no.sh2003010523
Topical headingYoung British Artists (Group of artists)
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Variant(s)YBAs (Group of artists)
YBA (Group of artists)
BritArt (Group of artists)
See alsoArt, British--20th century
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Found inWork cat.: 100: the work that changed British art, 2003: jkt. (Young British Artists) p. 201 (YBAs)
Dict. of art, 1996 (BritArt; group of Brit. artists active in London 1980s-late 1990s; early core members attended Goldsmith's Coll., London; term derived from series of Saatchi Gallery exhibs. of same name, 1992-6)
Concise Oxford dict. art terms, 2001 (under YBA: leading members incl. Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Tracy Emin)
Dict. twentieth-cent. art, 1998 (applied to highly publicized Brit. avant-garde artists supported chiefly by Charles Saatchi; sometimes referred to as "Freeze" generation)