Art into Life

Deborah Cherry is Professor Emerita of Art History & 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.

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