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  • proper noun The work of Young British Artists, a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom.

Etymologies

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Brit- +‎ art

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Examples

  • Artist Damien Hirst, whose shark-in-formaldehyde installation defined the so-called Britart movement, was laboring on building sites.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • Artist Damien Hirst, whose shark-in-formaldehyde installation defined the so-called Britart movement, was labouring on building sites.

    The Financial Express 2009

  • Artist Damien Hirst, whose shark-in-formaldehyde installation defined the so-called Britart movement, was laboring on building sites.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • Artist Damien Hirst, whose shark-in-formaldehyde installation defined the so-called Britart movement, was laboring on building sites.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • Artist Damien Hirst, whose shark-in-formaldehyde installation defined the so-called Britart movement, was laboring on building sites.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • They represent some of the cream of the so-called 'Britart' movement of celebrated modern artists.

    Archive 2004-05-01 Jonathan 2004

  • They represent some of the cream of the so-called 'Britart' movement of celebrated modern artists.

    Fire devastates Saatchi artworks Jonathan 2004

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

    Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010

  • George Ferguson, also a past RIBA president, said: 'Architecture isn't practised in some Britart external gallery.

    And for your homework, please design a torture device (Updated) Jonathan 2008

  • George Ferguson, also a past RIBA president, said: 'Architecture isn't practised in some Britart external gallery.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jonathan 2008

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