Table of 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

About the Author

Deborah Cherry is Professor Emeritus of Art History and 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.

Reviews

Tracey Emin - artist, public figure, legend - remains divisive. In the first significant new scholarship on Emin in a decade, 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.
*August Davis, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Texas at Arlington, USA*