Tracey Emin – Love is What You Want

Texts by Michael Corris, Jennifer Doyle, Cliff Lauson, Ali Smith and interview with Ralph Rugoff

245 x 245 mm 260 pp paperback

Fully illustrated

978 1 85332 293 8

PUBLICATION DATE: mid-May 2011

£27.99 – also available at a special exhibition price (£22.99) at the Hayward Shop and online

Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is one of Britain’s best-known and most controversial artists. Published to accompany the first major survey exhibition of her work in London since her rise to prominence in the 1990s, this book will bring together suites of works from across the artist’s career emphasising the diversity of her dynamic practice. It will spotlight her achievements in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, text-based works, textiles, photographs, video and performance. Also featuring seldom-seen early works and recent large-scale installations along with new outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward Gallery.

Since she first emerged in the early 1990s, Emin has made art that takes as its starting point the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, her art resonates with the ‘personal political’ legacy of feminist art while at the same time speaking to relationships in general, as well as exploring spirituality, cultural identity, class and celebrity. Disarmingly frank and often deeply confessional, much of Emin’s art is also animated by her playful and ironic wit.

This book is conceived and produced in close collaboration with the artist and designed by Graphic Thought Facility, London.

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