This fascinating book looks at the art of Britain's most famous contemporary artist, Tracey Emin. Writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how her work, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. They explore Emin's intersectional identity (including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality), reflect on her early years as an artist, pay attention to key works such as My Bed, highlight the tensions between Emin's art and craft, and provide an eminently readable theorization of her distinctive creative practice. Tracey Emin: Art into Life will be of interest to a broad readership.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The Last Great Adventure is Me
Deborah Cherry, University of the Arts London UK and Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, UK
1. Rethinking Tracey Emin: Life into Art
Mark Durden, University of South Wales, UK
2. 'It was just me, Tracey': Strategies of Self-Presentation in the Art of Tracey Emin
Camilla Jalving, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark
3. A Black Cat Crossed My Path
Glenn Adamson, Yale Center for British Art, USA
4. Twenty Years in the Making: Tracey Emin's My Bed
Deborah Cherry, University of the Arts London UK
5. The Bonfire of the Fallacies (or is it Phalluses?)
Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, UK
6. Early Emin
John White, independent, UK
7. 'I Do Not Expect to be a Mother': Non-Reproduction and Ageing in the Work of Tracey Emin
Joanne Heath, independent, UK
8. Dream and Diaspora: Tracey Emin's Turkish Cypriot Legacy
Alev Adil, indepedent, UK
9. All at Sea: Bad Girls, Hut Myths and Tracey Emin's 'Property by the Sea'
Gill Perry, Open University, UK
