October 26, 2004
confrontational?
Nay.
It is 1970's feminist self-expression' that reveals a 'frank and brutal honesty' that is part of the Britart movement.
Tracey Emin, The hole room, 1999, black ink on paper, from Fear, War and The Scream 2004
An article. Some background. Emin is a professor of confessional art at the European Graduate School.
Emin's work is very autobiographical. A confessional ‘bad girl’ working in an aesthetics of dirt and disgust who presents her art as produced out of and heart, wrought from personal experience.
Emin's My bed
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