| Co-authored
with Christina Davidson and Graham Forsyth. Coulter-Smith provides
the principal essay in this book tracing Young’s practice
from photo-conceptualism through to postmodern appropriation.
Coulter-Smith focuses on particular aspects of Young’s practice
that disrupt conventional art historical wisdom.
In particular he examines Young’s extensive
appropriations of the works of André Derain a ‘wild
beast’ (Fauve) who after a brief flirtation with Cubism
turned to conservative still-lifes and figure paintings.
Coulter-Smith argues that Young’s computer
manipulated postmodern montages incorporating Derain’s images
and his palette of colours are used as post-colonial subversion
of notions of modernism, postmodernism and artistic progress.
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