Art into Life

Essays on Tracey Emin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Tracey 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 Art Into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin 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 the central themes of Emin's art, attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization of her creative practice, Art into Life will interest a broad readership.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-05-14
Mått162 x 236 x 16 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350160606

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Deborah Cherry is Professor Emeritus of Art History and Theory at the University of the Arts London, UK. She has written extensively on contemporary art, including two pioneering books on women artists, Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists (1994) and Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain, 1850-1900 (2000) and her research interests are contemporary art and visual culture, transnational art and cultural translation, diaspora and migration, afterlives and haunting.Alexandra M. Kokoli is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Middlesex University, UK. Her research is situated within feminist art history, theory and practice, focusing particularly on the fraught but fertile relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis.

Introduction: The Last Great Adventure is Me Deborah Cherry, University of the Arts London UK and Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, UK1. Rethinking Tracey Emin: Life into ArtMark Durden, University of South Wales, UK2. ‘It was just me, Tracey’: Strategies of Self-Presentation in the Art of Tracey EminCamilla Jalving, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark3. A Black Cat Crossed My PathGlenn Adamson, Yale Center for British Art, USA4. Twenty Years in the Making: Tracey Emin’s My BedDeborah Cherry, University of the Arts London UK 5. The Bonfire of the Fallacies (or is it Phalluses?)Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, UK6. Early EminJohn White, independent, UK7. ‘I Do Not Expect to be a Mother’: Non-Reproduction and Ageing in the Work of Tracey EminJoanne Heath, independent, UK8. Dream and Diaspora: Tracey Emin’s Turkish Cypriot LegacyAlev Adil, indepedent, UK9. All at Sea: Bad Girls, Hut Myths and Tracey Emin’s ‘Property by the Sea’Gill Perry, Open University, UK

Tracey Emin - artist, public figure, legend - remains divisive. In the first significant new scholarship on Emin in a decade, 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.