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Book SynopsisTracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a young, unknown artist into the bad girl' of the Young British Art (YBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely receives the critical attention it deserves.
In Tracey Emin: Art Into Life, writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how Emin's art, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This innovative collection explores Emin's intersectional identity, including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality, reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and craft. With its discussions of th
Trade Review
Tracey Emin - artist, public figure, legend - remains divisive. In the first significant new scholarship on Emin in a decade, Tracey Emin: Art Into Life treats readers to a collection of critical essays that probes the reaches of her layered performances of identities. With both her enduring provocations and artistic preoccupations analysed here, this volume offers critical insights into Emin’s continuing significance to art today. -- August Davis, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Table of Contents
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
