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Tracey Emin: Paintings
The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin.
Dame Tracey Emin DBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment.
Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting. Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it’s for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon.
The book features more than 300 images of Emin’s gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie.
Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin’s emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.
Specifications:- Format: Hardback
- Size: 29 × 25cm
- Pages: 352 pp
- Illustrations: 300 illustrations
- ISBN: 9781838668617
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About Tracey Emin
A member of the infamous generation of artists known as the YBAs (Young British artists) she became well known for her multi-disciplinary practice involving film, drawing, neon, embroidery and installation work.
Emin’s deeply personal work is centred around a unique conceptual mode of artmaking that embraces both tenderness and audacity. Her works have often proved both era-defining and controversial involving a heavily autobiographical and confessional narrative that takes a frank examination of her own life and body. Emin has exhibited internationally and is frequently considered one of the most collectable Blue-chip artists that the UK has produced.
In 2007, London's Royal Academy of Arts elected Tracey Emin as a Royal Academician and four years later, the Academy appointed Emin a Professor of Drawing. The University of Kent also awarded Emin an honorary doctorate in 2007. In 2024 Emin was appointed Dame commander of the order of the British empire (DBE).
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