We have updated the SENSATION site with a new Matt Collings' critique.
Here is an excerpt:
'Sensation' wasn't known about when I wrote Blimey! I remember the subject coming up just after the book was published in 1997 and thinking how boring it sounded. It would just be the same old faces with the same old gags and the usual old nonsense in the papers.
The same old rhetorics being spouted. Everybody awkwardly occupying positions in an unconvincing way. But then when the show came on at the Royal Academy later that year it was exciting. It was a very uneven grouping.
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