This comprehensive study delves into the works of Tracey Emin, a renowned British artist known for her provocative and emotive paintings. It explores her unique artistic vision and the themes of femininity, identity, and personal experience that permeate her work. The book offers critical analysis and insights into Emin's contributions to contemporary art, highlighting her significance as a female icon in the art world.
The Leopold Museum will present the first comprehensive exhibition in Vienna featuring more than 80 works by the British artist Tracey Emin (born in 1963), a leading figure of the “Young British Artists”. Tracey Emin, a superstar and enfant terrible of contemporary art, will engage in a fascinating artistic dialogue, as she will not only present her own works but will also incorporate a personal selection of drawings by Egon Schiele into the exhibition. This exploration of the Austrian Expressionist’s oeuvre allows Tracey Emin to venture into unchartered territory with her art and to draw interesting parallels. 0Exhibition: Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (24.04-14.09.2015)
Catalog of an exhibition held May 26 - September 23, 2012.
Published to accompany the first UK retrospective of Emin's work, covering her output during the last 20 years.
Tracing artists' increasing use of their bodies as subject and actual material of their artworks, this title charts the rise of new forms of expression such as Body Art, Happenings, Performance and Live Art.
Als Tochter einer Britin und eines türkisch-zypriotischen Vaters wächst Tracey Emin mit ihrem Zwillingsbruder Paul in dem heruntergekommenen Küstenstädtchen Margate auf; zuerst in wohlhabenden, nach dem Bankrott des Vaters in ärmlichen Verhältnissen. Mit 12 wird sie vergewaltigt, mit 15 bricht sie die Schule ab. Zahllose Affären aus ihrer frühen Jugend verarbeitet sie später in der Installation Everyone I have ever Slept with 1963-1995. Eigentlich will Emin Tänzerin werden. Schließlich entscheidet sie sich für ein Kunststudium in London; eine internationale, von Skandalen begleitete Karriere beginnt.
The career of Tracey Emin, one of the best-known contemporary British artists, has become a potent symbol of the relationship between art and celebrity in our time. When it was exhibited in London at the Tate in 1999, her now notorious installation "My Bed" was denounced by conservative critics as a national scandal, but this and her other work have continued to attract ever larger audiences. Whether storming drunkenly out of live television debates, talking tearfully about her abortions, or modeling evening gowns for Vivienne Westwood, Tracey Emin makes headlines. Yet if Emin is now universally recognized as a media phenomenon, her work has also begun to attract serious critical attention. In The Art of Tracey Emin, distinguished critics from Britain and the United States address her achievement in depth for the first time, tracing Emin's influences from Egon Schiele to Judy Chicago and establishing her place in a larger tradition of postmodern and feminist art. Adopting a variety of critical approaches, contributors explore the full range of Emin's work, from photography and monoprints to installation art and videos, showing that, however raw and personal it may seem to be, it actually represents a carefully meditated response to vital issues in contemporary culture and society.