12/28/2023 0 Comments Emin strangelandIn this book she recalls her formative years. She is no fake' * Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph * ' writings are painfully honest.Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention' * Jeanette Winterson, The Times * 'While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.' * Observer * 'Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far.' * Australian Vogue * 'Emin writes with fierce clarity.I wasn't an expert on feelings, but Amma's were all stirred up in cake batter, and she wasn't about to share them. One of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation, Tracey Emin is not only a visual artist. Tracey Emins poetic, confessional practice spans film, painting, neon. effortlessly funny' * Metro * 'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' * Marie Claire * 'A very readable book, and a surprising one too' * Independent on Sunday * 'Eccentrically readable' * Glamour * 'Frequently affecting.intriguing, almost incantatory' * Saturday Telegraph * 'An extremely well-written and readable book' * Glasgow Herald * 'Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman' * Grazia * 'Emin talks with brutal frankness.genuinely uplifting' * Scotsman * 'A natural oddball - or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric' * Telegraph Magazine * 'Strangeland should not.be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. Tracey Emins 'Strangeland' is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers, and her own, private-public life in present-day London. From Forum Auctions, Tracey Emin, Strangeland My Life in a Column (2009), Book. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. genuinely uplifting * Scotsman * 'A fantastically engaging storyteller. Tracey Emins Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. intriguing, almost incantatory * Saturday Telegraph * Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman * Grazia * Emin talks with brutal frankness. ![]() ![]() effortlessly funny * Metro * As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings * Marie Claire * A very readable book, and a surprising one too * Independent on Sunday * Eccentrically readable * Glamour * Frequently affecting. There was a time when Tracey Emin was best known for this foul-mouthed, drunken rant on British television during a live discussion on the death of painting filmed after the 1997 Turner Prize. * Observer * A fantastically engaging storyteller. ![]() Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention - Jeanette Winterson * The Times * While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.
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