Tracey Emin. Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation - Softcover

Emin, Tracey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340769467 ISBN 13: 9780340769461

Verlag: Hachette Collections, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.

Tracey Emin's 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. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging., Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.

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'Emin writes with fierce clarity.' * Henry Hitchins, Times Literary Supplement * 'Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far.' * Australian Vogue * 'While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.' * Observer * '[Emin's] 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 * 'Strangeland should not...be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake' * Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph * 'A natural oddball - or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric' * Telegraph Magazine * 'Emin talks with brutal frankness...genuinely uplifting' * Scotsman * 'Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman' * Grazia * 'An extremely well-written and readable book' * Glasgow Herald * 'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' * Saturday Telegraph * 'Eccentrically readable' * Glamour * 'A very readable book, and a surprising one too' * Independent on Sunday * 'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' * Marie Claire * 'A fantastically engaging storyteller... heartbreaking... effortlessly funny' * Metro * Emin talks with brutal frankness . . . genuinely uplifting * Scotsman * Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman * Grazia * Frequently affecting . . . intriguing, almost incantatory * Saturday Telegraph * Eccentrically readable * Glamour * A very readable book, and a surprising one too * Independent on Sunday * As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings * Marie Claire * A fantastically engaging storyteller . . . heartbreaking . . . effortlessly funny * Metro * While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul. * Observer * Her 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 *

Reseña del editor:

The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this. Tracey Emin's 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. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.

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• Verlag: Hachette Collections
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340769467
• ISBN 13: 9780340769461
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224