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Britart

British  
/ ˈbrɪtˌɑːt /

noun

  1. a movement in modern British art beginning in the late 1980s, often conceptual or using controversial materials, including such artists as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Britart

C20: Brit short for British

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By the late 1980s, while her contemporaries at Goldsmiths were fomenting a Britart revolution, Ray had established herself at a gallery in Drury Lane doing copies of Renoir, Monet, Caravaggio, Stubbs, Gauguin and Modigliani.

From The Guardian Jul. 22, 2013

O'Neill has used his Britart connections to put on exhibitions by Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood and Rachel Whiteread.

From The Guardian Jul. 13, 2011

The other is, depending on your perspective, either a talented if occasionally chaotic national treasure; or an outmoded, overexposed hangover from the heyday of Britart.

From The Guardian Dec. 1, 2010

She is a little older than the group that constituted Britart, and a little younger than sculptors Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Richard Wentworth.

From The Guardian May 25, 2010

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