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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.
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
