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  Tracey Emin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emin's father was married to a woman other than her mother and while still young he abandoned the family which lead to a decline in their standard of living, an event which has featured in a number of works.
Although these early events caused Emin to be well known in art circles, she was largely unknown by the public until she appeared on a Channel 4 television program in 1997.
Emin refused and demanded the return of the tapestry even though her authorship of the piece was disputed.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tracy_Emin   (981 words)

  
 Tracey Emin: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin (born 1963) is an English artist, one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs).
It was an obstensibly serious debate show, and Emin was completely drunk (partly as a consequence of the painkillers she was taking for a broken finger), repeatedly saying that she wanted to go home to her mum.
Emin's relationship with the artist and musician Billy Childish gave rise to the Stuckism movement.
www.encyclopedian.com /tr/Tracy-Emin.html   (614 words)

  
 Artist as Victim, Artist as Celebrity: Interrogating the Work of Tracey Emin and Sue Williams
Emin was born in London in 1963 and spent her childhood in Margate, a seaside town that she revisits often in her art.
Emin's piece was an appliquéd tent and mattress on which she embroidered the names of every person she had slept with, including her aborted twins, her lovers, her mother and her brother.
Emin particularly incurred the rage of critics and was accused of being "crude, primitive, uninteresting, ill-informed, [and] objectionable." Reactions to Emin are usually knee-jerk and always strong.
www.shutitdown.net /text/victim.html   (2518 words)

  
 Sting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Emin was the obvious choice for the work, well known for her fashionable ideas she is also a paid up member of London's It-Crowd.
Emin was appalled to find that all the posters had been stolen, with some canny locals realising their art market value.
Emin's work is incredibly personal in it's content, often referring to her troubled personal history and her innermost thoughts.
www.myvillage.com /pages/celebs-article.htm   (2199 words)

  
 Tracey Emin - Professor of Confessional Art - Biography
Emin's art is highly confessional, for she makes her life known as well as her beliefs and her feelings.
David Bowie called Emin “William Blake as a woman, written by Mike Leigh”, critics describe her art as ”full of passion and striving and liveliness” with a ”raw openness”.
Tracey Emin is a Professor of Confessional Art at the European Graduate School where she conducts (with Jochen Poetter) a summer workshop.
www.egs.edu /faculty/emin.html   (214 words)

  
 The Observer | UK News | The artist, the critic and a war of words
In a fecious row that has seen the two fling increasingly wild accusations and bitter denials, a climax was reached last night when Emin announced her intention to sue Hensher for defamation of character and threatened to take out an injunction preventing him approaching her.
Emin, he wrote, was a half-witted dullard with no inquiring intelligence.
Emin, however, said that the revenge she mentioned was more subtle.
observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1020323,00.html   (1272 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Emin gives Tate tree to charity
Emin gave the tree to Lighthouse West and the Tate received a canvas by the Turner-Prize nominated artist instead.
Emin's decorated real fir tree is on show at the charity's west London office until early January.
Emin's donation could be a valuable Christmas present - her artworks sell for up to £95,000.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2569011.stm   (399 words)

  
 John Beagles essay on Tracy Emin. Published in Variant 1998.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The truth of Emin's narratives, their authenticity does not just explode supernova like from within; such a perception of the sovereign autonomy of the self smothers any of the conflicts, paradoxes and pressures that she finds herself in, making the kind of work she does, in a particular artistic, cultural and social space.
While the "in yer face" personae of Tracy Emin represents for many the good old fashioned, straight up and down, uncomplicated pleasures of expressionist fervour, she also has become the embodiment of a new culture of meritocracy, increasingly obsessed with the cult of survivors.
In making a fetish of Tracy Emin as an ex victim, there is the real danger of forgetting and punishing the failure of those unable to pull themselves together, for whom "the natural fact is they can't pay their taxes".
www.beaglesramsay.co.uk /essays/tracyemintext.htm   (1990 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: We Workers Do Not Understand Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is crucial in describing Emin's work because she is unconcerned with anything other than a celebration of her own twisted problems and meager thoughts, as if her own self existed independently of anything that has happened before.
Although one Emin bio was kind enough to list Egon Schiele and Edvard Munsch as influences, there is nothing of them in her work; there is just Emin and her love-hate affair with herself.
Emin, if she is tuned in to anything, should know that "My Bed" is nothing more than the supreme ready-made.
www.ink19.com /issues/july2002/streaks/weWorkersDoNot.html   (2442 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Tracey Emin
Emin's first move into the public eye was opening a shop in London's Bethnal Green called, er, The Shop, with fellow artist Sarah Lucas.
Emin was the inspiration - if that's the right word - for a latter day art movement called Stuckism, which is devoted to advancing the cause of painting as the most vital means of addressing contemporary issues.
A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,810347,00.html   (435 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Tracey Emin and Julian Schnabel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Emin, a British star of the moment, brings one back to the puzzle of the prefixes—neo and post, and all the conflicts they demand.
Emin emphasizes not her naked flesh, like John Coplans, but the props.
Tracey Emin showed at Lehmann Maupin, Julian Schnabel at PaceWildenstein, Sandro Chia at Shafrazi, Philip Taafe at Gagosian, Tony Berlant at Lennon Weinberg, Nancy Rubins at Kasmin, and Guillermo Kuitca at Sperone Westwater, all in May and June of 1999.
www.haberarts.com /emins.htm   (2067 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Tracy Emin's art appears as a tautology: her art is her life, her history, and vice versa.
In 1994 Emin had her first solo show at White Cube, London, entitled 'My Major Retrospective', where she exhibited her diaries, letters and memorabilia, as well as miniature photographs of her old paintings from college.
This exhibition inaugurated Emin's art of confession as catharsis, with her charismatic narratives of pain, love, abuse and survival, subsequently evidenced in her birth-to-adolescence book Exploration of the Soul.
2ndthought.net /bai/tracyemin.htm   (293 words)

  
 SpiritForum.com - Tracy Emin attacks Press Lies- UK
Emin, whose work often very publicly depicts her emotions, is one of Britain's most high-profile young artists, although attention has often been focused as much on her party lifestyle as her exhibitions.
Emin added that some other artists had told her this was "part of the territory," but she disagreed.
Emin began her artistic career as a painter, although she is now more famous for other artwork.
www.spiritsingles.com /forum/showthread.php?t=54   (695 words)

  
 Tracey Emin - Professor of Confessional Art - Bibliography
Emin, Tracey Tracey Emin-Artists on an Eternal Picnic: Bohemians such as George Barker Lived in Creative Chaos on the Margins of Mainstream Society.
Emin, Tracey Grand Aesthetic of the Dumped: We Have All Slept With Tracey Emin.
Emin, Tracey Tracey Emin (Nominee 1999) Bibi van der Zee, The Guardian (November 1, 2003).
www.egs.edu /faculty/traceyemin.html   (581 words)

  
 Tracy Emin Tent - Big Tent Guide
Tracy Emin is mainly notable for her 1999 Turner Prize exhibit "The Bed",...
tracy emin is not my favourite person but i was impressed by her comment...
Tracy Emin and her unmade bed and her tent with the names of all her exs come in to the "Yes, easily" catogory and I dont therefore consider them...
www.bigtentguide.com /tracy-emin-tent.html   (766 words)

  
 PerformInk Online
Tracy Takes On In Britain, artists in all fields are used to a harsher tone from their critics.
Hensher's suspicion, quickly aired, was that Emin had 'responded' by sending him a bunch of unwanted mail, 'ranging from incontinence pads to china figurines of Peter Rabbit,' according to a report on the fracas in The Observer.
Emin wasted no time in saying she had done no such thing, and then threatened to sue Hensher for the very implication, and for calling her a homophobe, which he denies doing.
www.performink.com /Archives/ArtsLine/2003/8-29Artslines.html   (846 words)

  
 Fear, War and the Scream: Tracey Emin :: Salient
Emin gained notoriety for her pieces My Bed (1998), her own dirty unmade bed, and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-95 (1995), a tent with over a hundred names stitched onto it.
Emin used to paint but realised that the works did not mean anything about her.
Emin is also celebrated for her impressive cleavage, which was voted in the top ten of Tatler’s recent poll.
salient.co.nz /index.php?i=17&c=29   (728 words)

  
 London Film Festival - Films - Top Spot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Obvious but true, there is both artistry and craft in her editing style, linking the natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets with Margate's more man-made pleasures, and underscoring them with a great selection of songs.
Tracy Emin may benefit from making more films before gaining some control of the medium.
Top Spot is probably best suited to a gallery within the context of Emin's larger body of work (of which I am not acquainted), and not seen as a standalone work of film-art.
www.lff.org.uk /films_details.php?FilmID=546   (699 words)

  
 Tracy Emin's My Bed - Issue 2 - SHARP Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the detritus beside the bed, and in the smaller installations in New York are pointers to and reminders of earlier feminist interventions.
Emin’s reputation as the most notorious of British art’s bad girls was fuelled by the associations of My Bed with an aesthetics of dirt.
Contemporary criticism which explains Emin’s art as an expressive conduit for her emotions or as artful stage-management effects particular kinds of closures.
www.sussex.ac.uk /Units/arthist/sharp/issues/0002/pHTML/pTraceyEminMyBed05.shtml   (1043 words)

  
 Art Books - Feminine Moments' Bibliography on Fine Art
In her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in Britain since 1997, Tracey Emin explores a world in which memories merge with the present and future.
For Emin, her life and her art are her family history, her sexual experiences, her desires and her fears, expressed with compelling frankness.
Imbued with a sense of the intimate and the hand-made, Emin draws on a wide range of media, from etching and applique to film, neon and sculpture.
www.femininemoments.dk /bog006.html   (284 words)

  
 Events | Graduate Association | University of Brighton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Emin made a special visit to the University of Brighton on 27 November 2003, to take questions from students and Barry Barker, Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture.
The proceedings began spectacularly with a demonstration of Emin’s gift for verbal self defence as one student vehemently accused her of having a ‘capitalist noose’ around her neck.
Emin mercilessly but eloquently defended her corner and the dissertation writer was silenced.
www.bton.ac.uk /bga/04emin.php   (177 words)

  
 BBC News | ARTS | Emin's cat posters taken by collectors
Artist Tracey Emin's attempt to trace her lost cat has ended with her posters appealing for help being torn down by collectors.
Despite the rapid disappearance of the posters, she was reunited with her cat earlier this week.
Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and completed an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1898461.stm   (334 words)

  
 Variant | issue 5| Make me wanna holler, throw up both my hands, John Beagles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Despite my satisfaction at Roger Scruton's inability to disguise his misogynist contempt for the worthless piece of seaside flotsam he took Tracy Emin to be, it was impossible to suppress the thought that she had been set up.
As the noble savage from the exotic hinterland of Margate, Emin is attractive to those who find themselves simultaneously emotionally neutered, consumed with a voyeuristic appetite for a bit of 'rough' and harboring a romantic belief in the naturalness and truth of the "ordinary people".
While the "in yer face" persona of Tracy Emin represents for many the good old fashioned, straight up and down, uncomplicated pleasures of expressionist fervor, she also has become the embodiment of a new culture of meritocracy, increasingly obsessed with the cult of survivors.
www.variant.randomstate.org /5texts/John_beagles.html   (2530 words)

  
 Tracy Emin on Frost
Tracy Emin's ridiculous outburst on BBC's Breakfast with Frost today confirms what we already know: She is an arrogant pathetic piece of crap.
I laughed at hers and the other so called 'art' getting burnt down because it teaches a much needed lesson to these pathetic twats who call themselves artists that their 'work' is complete rubbish and an insult.
The fire _was_ extremely funny and Emin's arrogance that it is part of British culture that was lost is just incredible.
www.talkaboutarts.com /group/alt.art.scene/messages/20468.html   (204 words)

  
 Tracey Emin page at Some Things about Art and Cities
Tracey Emin, the well-known modern artist who should have won the 1999 Turner Prize, but didn't, produces autobiographical art -- art which is about herself.
Well, Emin's controlled exhibition of self clearly has something in common with all those websites which people make about themselves [this one is not excluded from this point].
She would just launch into talking about herself in a way that would have been quite strange if it was anyone else, and actually was quite strange when she did it, but she did it so often it began to seem normal.
www.newmediastudies.com /art/art-emin.htm   (479 words)

  
 sheepblog: Tracy Emin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Tracy's a strong woman to be able to face and open her self up to this to the world.
Tracy Emin isnt afraid, and thats what i think is fantastic.she doesnt care what people might think, she just does it.the reaction to it being "sick" or "terrible" is that people dont want to think about what she's putting forward: that things like what has happened to her DO happen.
i've only just found tracy emin but the little i have read and seen has conveyed a strong woman with the ability to cope, with what ever shit, life throws her way!everyone is fucked up in their own way, most bottle it up and become more fucked up.
www.enigmaticsheep.com /archives/000017.html   (2080 words)

  
 Kultureflash - Headlines from London
Tracy Emin, yes she of the unmade bed, is going to make a feature film.
Emin is no stranger to film-making and has so far created over 20 shorts films.
Her first feature will be experimental and Emin will write, direct and shoot it on Super-8 and 16mm.
www.kultureflash.net /engines/print.asp?edition=8&event=150&subscriber=   (111 words)

  
 Tate | News
Tracey Emin's is a confessional art, manifested in a rich variety of media and unprecedented in its frankness and the unsparing nature of her self examination.
Often misunderstood, it is a small tent embroidered on the inside with the names of everyone Emin had literally slept with, including her twin brother in the womb, parents and comatose friends, as well as lovers.
One of the most admired aspects of Emin's practice has always been her drawing, her spare nervous line and her anguished, erotic imagery both having echoes of Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, two of the artists she most admires.
www.tate.org.uk /home/news/emin.htm   (512 words)

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