BRITISH EVASION.(Review) (book review)

The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Writing on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst. Edited by Martin Gayford and Karen Wright. New York: Grove Press, 2000. 620 pages, $18.

THE REDCOATS ARE COMING! The redcoats are coming! For several seasons now, the alarm has sounded in New York City and parts west of the Hudson as galleries and museums have fielded the up-and-coming Brit Pack artists in various solo and group extravaganzas, each one intended to retake America by storm. None has, of course, especially not the overproduced, too-eager-to-please-by-offending efforts of ...

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