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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Deborah Cherry is Professor Emerita of Art History & 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Adopting a broad range of perspectives, such as cultural identity, ageing, sexuality and performativity, this book explores the art of Britain's most famous contemporary artist: Tracey Emin. Zusammenfassung 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 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 the central themes of Emin's art, attention to key works such as My Bed , and accessible theorization of her creative practice, Tracey Emin: Art into Life will interest 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 <...
