Sensation: Young British Artsits (Thames & Hudson 60th Anniversary Edition)

Thames & Hudson is celebrating it’s 60th Anniversary! To mark this special birthday we will be reissuing 20 titles from across our list as special editions. Popular when first published, popular now, with the added spice that – enhanced by their unique 60th Anniversary cover and jacket designs – they are set to become collectors items.

The catalogue of the exhibition that rocked the modern art world. "Dark, violent, savagely satirical visions of what it feels like to be British", Artforum. The opening of the 'Sensation' exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997, at the height of the Young British Artists’ popularity, caused a public furore and a media frenzy, with both broadsheet and tabloid journalists falling over themselves to comment on the show’s controversial images, and unprecedented crowds queuing up to see for themselves what all the fuss was about.

This catalogue of that seminal exhibition features the work of over forty artists, including Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, the Chapman brothers, Mark Wallinger, Gary Hume, Michael Landy and Chris Ofili, as well as penetrating essays by Norman Rosenthal, Lisa Jardine, critics Richard Shone and Brook Adams and painter and critic Martin Maloney, who survey a decade of creative explosion.